from Pat Murphy, the storekeeper at Home Rule, that he'd `cured himself' --

it was the biggest I ever saw; there were three loaves of baker's bread,

a cake, and a dozen yards of something `to make up for the children',

from Aunt Gertrude at Gulgong; there was a fresh-water cod,

that long Dave Regan had caught the night before in the Macquarie river,

and sent out packed in salt in a box; there was a holland suit

for the black boy, with red braid to trim it; and there was

a jar of preserved ginger, and some lollies (sweets) (`for the lil' boy'),