Lorie was more of a beauty than he had expected to find. Though he was content to stick with the Captain and Gus and do his daily work, he found that the problem of women was one that didn't entirely go away. Billygonequeer did not appear tonotice the presence of either the flies or the men standingaround him. While there were vacant positions aplentynone of those advertising for a clerk bookkeeper requireda female bookkeeper who was a ticket of leave convict.
He had tried many times to envision how it would be to be alone at night under the same roof with a woman--or to have one there at breakfast and supper. If folks could drink sweat you wouldn't need no well, Dish said. And make us help him. If I'd been riding my mare she'd have kicked it so far you'd have had to hunt to find your bacon.
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