Chapter 25
Penny struggled beneath the dead weight of the wallaby, feeling the strain across her stomach and shoulders. Seeing the blood on her shirt.
‘I’ll take that one for you, love,’ said Ray’s friend, Charlie. ‘He’s a big ’un.’ They stowed the six bodies in the coolroom beside the mews. ‘If it weren’t me doing the culling, it’d be some other bugger,’ he said, defensively. ‘At least you knows I don’t let them suffer.’
‘I do know that, Charlie. And I also know you could sell them to the processor at Eaglehawk Neck instead of giving them to me.’ She gave him a quick kiss. He rubbed his cheek and smiled, revealing the stubs of his front teeth. ‘You’re very generous, Charlie, considering you and Ray aren’t flush with cash right now.’
‘You’re not wrong there, love. Log runs are thin on
