"Not she," said ’Possum.  "I say, though, I haven’t got anything special to do to-day: how’d it be if I was to stay and do a few odd jobs about the house, an’ then take her an’ Garth out in the skiff when it gets cooler?  We could drift down to the lake, an’ then just mooch along until we met you comin’ home from Metung; an’ you could bring us home in the launch an’ tow the skiff."