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It was a great wedding, for the bride and bridegroom were children of well known German colonists, and German kinship in this Australian land remote from the Fatherland was strong and affectionate.
The friends of the main contracting parties came in their buggies and sulkies and V shaped German waggons from Geham and Plainby, Highfields and Meringandan, from Gowrie Little Plain and Glencoe, to make merry at the wedding feast, high up on Middle Ridge overlooking the vast spaces below, where floating clouds made little isles of shadow in a sea of light, and where, away in the distance, lay Murphy's Creek and Helidon, Gatton, and Laidley.