An Alice Girl by Tanya Heaslip

Author:Tanya Heaslip
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2020-03-24T00:00:00+00:00

Dad had an uncanny way of flying his plane all morning and issuing instructions and then, once the cattle were moving forward steadily, disappearing. We’d watch him fly off and think, furiously, Lucky Dad, he’s going home, where it’s nice and cool, and he can have a drink of water.

But Dad usually flew home, dived over the homestead (which was a message to Mum to saddle up Limerick and have him ready and waiting) and then landed fast, put DQG in the hangar, and rushed back to the homestead to take Limerick’s reins from Mum. Then he’d ride out to help us out near the end, at the most crucial moment of the muster. We might have been going for five kilometres or fifty kilometres, but the final half-hour when we had to get all the cattle through that last gate and safely into the yard was the riskiest. If they broke away at that stage, we could lose the lot, and the whole muster would have been wasted.

So, it was always like a miracle when Dad arrived fresh and took the lead. We—along with our horses—would be hot and exhausted, but Dad would walk the cattle into the yards through that last gate like a hero.

Dad’s arrival was a gift from God to me. If Dad and Limerick were there, and they took the lead, we’d be right. I had as much faith in Dad as I did in God.

He was the be-all and end-all.

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