On the plains where the coolibars grow.”

CHAPTER XVII

THE PEAK OF BEN ATHOL

By rolling plain and rocky shelf,

With stock-whip in his hand,

He reached at last, oh, lucky elf,

The Town of Come-and-help-yourself,

In Rough-and-ready Land.

—A. B. Paterson.

OH!” said Jean, despairingly. “I wish to goodness I hadn’t been born fat!”