“Here you are, Goggle Eye,” I said; “me bin good fellow, me bin find him.”
I expected him to look ashamed of himself, but he didn’t—not a little bit! He sat down and laughed till the tears rolled down his cheeks at the joke of it all, and that made me laugh too. Of course in the end Goggle Eye got a new pipe, and went off “bush” with it in his mouth. As he went through the gate he turned and waved it at me, and that was the last time I saw him looking merry-hearted and happy.
Chapter 7
“Mumma A” And “Mumma B”
I had taught Sue some tricks—to beg, shake hands, and pretend to be “deadfellow”—and Bett-Bett was wild with delight.
“My word, Missus!” she cried excitedly, “Sue plenty savey, him close up whitefellow.” Then seizing her darling in her arms, she darted off to the humpy to show her to the lubras, singing as she ran, “Sue plenty savey; him savey, him savey!”
When they came back I was reading, and paid no attention to them.
After a while Bett-Bett said—
“What name, Missus?”
I looked up to see her staring very hard at me, with a puzzled look on her face.
“What name, what?” I said, wondering what she meant.