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During this period, the young men from Maneroo--Malcolm, Dennis, and Charlie Timson as well--were variously domiciled with the Brennans, Mazeres, Stantons and Saunders. Their stockmen were tented or humpied around the adjacent gullies and ridges, as the pasturing of the cattle dictated.
The vivacious, comely young women of the Bool Bool stations had that quality of unfamiliarity which is always paraffin on the Fire of romance, and the young men from Maneroo had that same allure for the girls. It was a merry winter for the young people. Mazere became heartily irritated by the gigglings and whisperings that went on between them.