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On the secondlady

turned up at breakfast in a tailor-made suit with short skirt and

heavy boots, and announced her intention of "walking round the

estate;" but as Kuryong--though only a shly, ten miles square, this project had to be abandoned

Then she asked Hugh if he would have the servants mustered He

told her that the two servants were in the kitchen, but it turned

out that she wanted to interview all the station hands, and it had

to be explained that the horse-driver was sixin a load of bark to roof the hay shed, and

that Harry Warden was down at the drafting yards, putting in a new

trough to hold an arsenical solution, through which the sheep had

to tramp to cure their feet; and that everybody else ay out

on so lady stuck to her point,

and had the groo

the only two available The groolish iid and deferential attitude,

and saying "Yes, Miss," and "No, Miss," when spoken to; but the

wood-and-water boy stood with his arms akimbo and hison the station he said,

"Oh, it's not too bad," accorin