"I don't see why you are in such a hurry to go to work," said Sandy. "I think you have a pretty fine time!"
CHAPTER VI
"LOST!"
Life at the run proved pleasant to Jean and full of interesting happenings. She missed her father and Fergus, but she and Sandy soon grew to be great friends, and many were the thrilling bits of mischief into which he dragged her, sure that he would escape punishment if Jean were only to say, "Don't punish Sandy, Uncle Angus, I did it too."
The little girl loved her Aunt Mildred, but more than any one at the station her uncle had won her heart. She grew to be his little shadow, driving and riding with him, sun-tanned and rosy, growing strong and healthy in the free Australian life.
"You are getting as fat as a Chinaman's horse, lassie," said her uncle as they rode to the river one day.
"Why do you say that?" she asked.
"The Chinese are always very kind to their horses and keep them fat and slick, so that has grown to be a proverb, though some people say as 'fat as a larrikin's dog,' instead."