A Little Bush Maid

By Bruce, Mary Grant

Book Id: WPLBN0000624131
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Title:	A Little Bush Maid
Author:	Bruce, Mary Grant
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: Chapter 1. BILLABONG Norah?s home was on a big station in the north of Victoria?so large that you could almost, in her own phrase, ?ride all day and never see any one you didn?t want to see?; which was a great advantage in Norah?s eyes. Not that Billabong Station ever seemed to the little girl a place that you needed to praise in any way. It occupied so very modest a position as the loveliest part of the world! The homestead was built on a gentle rise that sloped gradually away on every side; in front to the wide plain, dotted with huge gum trees and great grey box groves, and at the back, after you had passed through the well?kept vegetable garden and orchard, to a long lagoon, bordered with trees and fringed with tall bulrushes and waving reeds. The house itself was old and quaint and rambling, part of the old wattle and dab walls yet remaining in some of the outhouses, as well as the grey shingle roof. There was a more modern part, for the house had been added to from time to time by different owners, though no additions had been made since Norah?s father brought home his young wife, fifteen years before this story opens. Then he had built a large new wing with wide and lofty rooms, and round all had put a very broad, tiled verandah. The creepers had had time to twine round the massive posts in those fifteen years, and some even lay in great masses on the verandah roof; tecoma, pink and salmon?coloured; purple bougainvillea, and the snowy mandevillea clusters. Hard?headed people said this was not good for the building?but Norah?s mother had planted them, and because she had loved them they were never touched.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: A Little Bush Maid, 1 -- Mary Grant Bruce, 1 -- Chapter I. BILLABONG, 1 -- Chapter II. PETS AND PLAYTHINGS, 5 -- Chapter III. A MENAGERIE RACE, 9 -- Chapter IV. JIM'S IDEA, 13 -- Chapter V. ANGLERS' BEND, 20 -- Chapter VI. A BUSH FIRE, 25 -- Chapter VII. WHAT NORAH FOUND, 33 -- Chapter VIII. ON A LOG, 39 -- Chapter IX. FISHING, 48 -- Chapter X. THE LAST DAY, 61 -- Chapter XI. GOOD?BYE, 68 -- Chapter XII. THE WINFIELD MURDER, 72 -- Chapter XIII. THE CIRCUS, 79 -- Chapter XIV. CAMPING OUT, 88 -- Chapter XV. FOR FRIENDSHIP, 97 -- Chapter XVI. FIGHTING DEATH, 102 -- Chapter XVII. THE END OF THE STRUGGLE, 105 -- Chapter XVIII. EVENING, 109