As Gradually And
Naturally As It Had Crept Upon Us, That Silence Slipped Away, And We
Spoke Of The Multitude
Of sounds and creatures about us, until, seeing
deeper and deeper into Dan's message every moment, we learned that each
Sound and creature was hoeing its own row as it alone knew how, and, in
the hoeing, was lending all others a hand with theirs, as they toiled in
the Mighty Row of the Universe, each obedient to the great law of the
Creator that all else shall be left to Him, as through them He taught the
world that no man liveth to himself alone.
"You will find that a woman alone in a camp of men is decidedly out of
place," the Darwin ladies had said; and yet that day, as at all times,
the woman felt strangely and sweetly in place in the bushmen's camp. "A
God-forsaken country," others of the town have called the Never-Never,
because the works of men have not yet penetrated into it. Let them look
from their own dark alleys and hideous midnights into some or all of the
cattle camps out-bush, or, better still, right into the "poor dark
souls'" of the bush-folk themselves - if their vision is clear
enough - before they judge.
Long before our midnight had come, the camp was sleeping a deep, sound
sleep - those who were not on watch - a dreamless sleep, for the bullocks
were peaceful and ruminating, the Chinese drovers having been "excused"
from duty lest other beasts should stray during "some one's" watch.
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