Up the Country: A Saga of Pioneering Days

The flutter of skirts on the ridge opposite raised a ripple of interest among the women of the Gowandale-Eueurunda party. In those days, precious though ladies were to the opposite sex, it was as nothing to the joy with which their own sex hailed and welcomed them.

-"I'd like to go over and ask those ladies to come join wi' us for dinner. It would be more neighbourly, I'm thinkin'," said Mrs McEachern. "I wonder who they can be?" said Mrs Healey.