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... bungie house to bungie house - home ! These were homes , not just places wherein to sleep ; this was family life . There may have been more elegant houses in Chaslands than that of Sandy McKelvie and his three weans , but there was no ...
... bungie house to bungie house - home ! These were homes , not just places wherein to sleep ; this was family life . There may have been more elegant houses in Chaslands than that of Sandy McKelvie and his three weans , but there was no ...
Page 84
... bungie abode . Next day he was digging holes , and the secret was out . The piles for a new house were being put in . Tongues wagged and eyes bulged . A new house ! Ideas rooted in bungie and thatch and shingle took some altering . But ...
... bungie abode . Next day he was digging holes , and the secret was out . The piles for a new house were being put in . Tongues wagged and eyes bulged . A new house ! Ideas rooted in bungie and thatch and shingle took some altering . But ...
Page 86
... bungie shed in a small clearing by the road , and looking always as if he had just emerged from the bush , and was due to return to it shortly , spear in hand , there to subsist on wild pig and honey , had astounded his neighbours in a ...
... bungie shed in a small clearing by the road , and looking always as if he had just emerged from the bush , and was due to return to it shortly , spear in hand , there to subsist on wild pig and honey , had astounded his neighbours in a ...
Contents
1Arrival at Chaslands Page | 11 |
2Settling in and Making Friends | 16 |
3Visiting the Neighbours | 21 |
Copyright | |
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appeared bank Beardman Bill Churchfield Billy birds blue broadleaf Bronin Broon Browden bull bullock bungie Catlins cattle caves chain Chaslands Beach clay cows creek Curio Bay dance dark deep dobbin dogs Douglas boys dray eels eyes feet fern fire fish flax Fred Dale Gang Geordie girls gully hack hammer hand hauled Hooki-hook horse huhu grubs inches J. D. S. Roberts Jack Churchfield Jack Miles kakas kamahi knew lads lady legs Little Samson load long Jack looked Maori maun mile morepork morning night Owaka Papatowai perhaps Photograph by J. D. S. picnic piece Pounawea pounds race ragwort rimu river road rock rope round Sandy's scones scow sheuch shot sledge smoke song stream stumps supple-jack Tahakopa Taunton Tautuku timber Tom Douglas tree voice Waikawa Waimahaka walk wheels wild