) "Is n't the whole country land from one end to the
other? And is there another country like it anywhere?"
"There is n't!" said the man.
"Is there any other country in th' WORLD" (Dad lifted his voice) "where a
man, if he likes, can live" ("Dad, tea!") "without a shilling in his
pocket and without doing a tap of work from one year's end to the other?"
Anderson did n't quite understand, and the weird man asked Dad if he meant
"in gaol."
"I mean," Dad said, "that no man should starve in this country when
there's kangaroos and bears and"--(Joe came and stood beside Dad and asked
him if he was DEAF)--"and goannas and snakes in thousands. Look here!"
(still to the weird man), "you say that farming"--(Mother, bare-headed,
came out and stood beside Joe, and asked Anderson if Mrs. Anderson had got
a nurse yet, and Anderson smiled and said he believed another son had just
arrived, but he had n't seen it)--"that farming don't pay"--(Sal came
along and stood near Mother and asked Anderson who the baby was
like)--"don't pay in this country?"
The man nodded.
"It will pay any man who----"
Interruption.
Anderson's big dog had wandered to the house, and came back with nearly
all that was for supper in his mouth.
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