All That Swagger by Miles Franklin — Read

Robert's children were growing healthily, as Danny observed when he went up for the shearing. Sheep had been introduced. Danny helped to muster with splendid yells, from the back of a Nullah Mundoey. He could still burst through the scrub and descend sharp declivities with elan. William was also much at Burrabinga trying to reduce the dingoes. He and Harry were sometimes ill of cramp through long hours of sheep-washing. The Delacys began too late to re-adjust themselves to sheep. Where horses inspired swagger, sheep compelled a poking and slogging which irked the reckless caballeros. The paradox of mounted infantry was beyond them.

Surveyors had been busy for a decade. Much of the mountain country was now leased from the Crown. The rich squatters from Riverina and farther north built summer homes there. The Mesdames Delacy were hostesses to any amount of the best society, and were general favourites. They were smartly dressed and well mounted, had well-stocked gardens, and the social amenities introduced by Josephine were observed in their homes.