"Well, there’s the kids.  Bill may want to go to Melbourne for the Show some day, or to the Cup; an’ Bert an’ Polly’ll be gettin’ bigger, an’ p’raps there’ll be parties an’ darnces comin’ along, an’ they got to have decent clothes.  Dad ’ud never understand; he’d think they could go all right in whatever they happened to have on.  But they got ideas. They been with other girls at the school, y’ see.  I couldn’t have ’em cut out by a parcel of kids not half as good-lookin’ as they are.  I’m goin’ to get them dresses for the regatta on New Year’s Day.  All Sale an’ Bairnsdale comes down then, an’ my kids got to look as well as any of ’em."