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After breakfast nextMary decided to spend the day in the

co holidays

"Just as well for you to learn the house firsts" said Hugh, "before

you tackle the property The youngsters knohere everything

is--within four irls were impressed, and were told to take Miss Grant

round and show her the way about the place; and they set off together

in the bright ht, on a trip of exploration

Now, no true Australian, young or old, ever takes any trouble or

undergoes any exertion or goes anywhere without an object in view

So the children considered it the height of stupidity to walk si where they were to walk

to

"What shall we see if we go along this road?" asked Miss Grant,

pointing with her dainty parasol along the wheel-track that meandered

across the open flat and lost itself in the tiether

"Then, what is there up that way?" she asked, waving her hand up

towards the foothills and the blue mountains "There must be some

pretty flowers to look at up there?"

"No, there isn't," said the children