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Motor cars had conquered the Blue Mountains by 1905. Delacy's Peaks protected their realm a little longer but _decrescendo_ was written under the high-spirited rhythm of blood horses' hoofs, and brought dispirited years to Burrabinga.
Old Robert's silken thatch still had no white threads, though there were some about his jowl. Mavis and Vida, when he visited them in Sydney, insisted upon Pa submitting to the King Edward clip, which had long been in vogue for squatters with any sense of style. Those who clung to the possum formation in whiskers had been relegated to farce, and ridiculed as Dad Waybacks, successors to the earlier bushwhackers.