Wings Above Billabong by Mary Grant Bruce

Author:Mary Grant Bruce
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Australia, juvenile
Publisher: Distributed Proofreaders Canada
Published: 1935-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

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It was generally Brownie’s habit to do her thinking in bed, since her days were too busy to include meditation. In bed she could review quietly the events of the day, noting what had gone wrong and reflecting on how to put it right to-morrow; or, more often, just rejoicing in detail over the hours of a day that had seemed to hold only sunny hours.

Such days of brightness had been fewer since Daisy had been added to her staff. That young woman managed to put many pin-pricks into life in the kitchen. But Brownie knew that most problems solve themselves if thought over quietly; even Daisy might mend her ways, or else realize that she did not fit into Billabong, and remove herself from it.

“An’ that ’ud be the best for everyone, I’m sure,” mused Brownie. “Only I can’t worry Miss Norah now, with all she’s got on her mind. I’ll just keep a hold on my temper an’ treat the child as well as I can, an’ I expect the Lord’ll help me. I’ll want Him to help a lot if I find her nasty lip-stick in the spoon-drawer again!”

She dismissed Daisy from her thoughts. They turned to the young man who had come with Joe Carter, and she gave Bat Harris some moments of meditation.

“He certainly seemed a nice young feller. So quiet an’ civil in his ways; none of your free-an’-easy young chaps. Didn’t offer to light a cigarette in me kitchen, neither.”

Brownie was growing sleepy. The thoughts became disjointed.

“He did talk nice about gardens . . . I thought once or twice it was a bit too nice to be true, but I expect it was only my nasty mind . . . and no silly nonsense with young Daisy, for all she kept lookin’ at him . . . I was glad of that . . . have to keep my eye on her while the shearers are here . . . but young Harris didn’t give her no encouragement . . . a nice young feller . . . only I wish he didn’t show so much white in his eye!”

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