"Garth is the main thing, of course," Tom said. "But it has paid in other ways, too.  Of course, we have had luck.  We struck a wonderful season, and we had no trouble with drought or bush-fires, or anything else.  We haven’t made a fortune. But there’s money in it—not enough to get excited over, but enough to make one feel easy about the future. What with the stock, the wool, the crops, and the fowl-yard and vegetable-garden, we’ve had a very decent season, haven’t we, Aileen?"