“Too right,” he said. “It’s mineral, too—you couldn’t drink that water. There’s gas comes up with it as well. I’ll light it for you if you’d like to see.” He explained that it would make a flame five or six feet high. “Wait till it gets a bit darker, and I’ll light it for you then.”
She said that that was terribly kind of him, and he looked embarrassed. Al Burns, the Shell agent and truck repairer came by and stopped to join them. “Got fixed up all right, Miss Paget?”
“Yes thank you. I’m staying here till Wednesday and then going on to Cairns.”
“Good-oh. We don’t see too many strange faces, here in Willstown.”
“I was asking Pete here about the bore. Pete, do the cattle drink that water?”
The boy laughed, “When they can’t get nothing sweeter they’ll drink that. You’ll see that they won
