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Title: We of the Never-Never

Author: Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn

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We Of The Never-Never

By Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn




Dedicated
To

"The Bush Folk OF THE NEVER-NEVER"






PRELUDE



We--are just some of the bush-folk of the Never-Never.

Distinct in the foreground stand:

The Maluka, The Little Missus, The Sanguine Scot, The Head Stockman,
The Dandy, The Quiet Stockman, The Fizzer, Mine Host, The Wag,
Some of our Guests, A few black " boys " and lubras, A dog or two,
Tam-o'-Shanter, Happy Dick, Sam Lee, and last, but by no means least,
Cheon--the ever-mirthful, ever-helpful, irrepressible Cheon,
who was crudely recorded on the station books as cook and gardener.

The background is filled in with an ever-moving company--
a strange medley of Whites, Blacks, and Chinese; of travellers,
overlanders, and billabongers, who passed in and out of our lives,
leaving behind them sometimes bright memories, sometimes sad,
and sometimes little memory at all.

And All of Us, and many of this company, shared each other's lives
for one bright, sunny year, away Behind the Back of Beyond,
in the Land of the Never-Never; in that elusive land with an elusive name--
a land of dangers and hardships and privations yet loved
as few lands are loved-- a land that bewitches her people
with strange spells and mysteries, until they call sweet bitter,
and bitter sweet. Called the Never-Never, the Maluka loved to say,
because they, who have lived in it and loved it Never-Never voluntarily
leave it. Sadly enough, there are too many who Never-Never do leave it.
Others--the unfitted--will tell you that it is so called
because they who succeed in getting out of it swear they will Never-Never
return to it. But we who have lived in it, and loved it, and left it,
know that our hearts can Never-Never rest away from it.
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