"Oh, the usual thing.  Dad’s away shearin’, so I’ve got to be pretty busy again: and anyhow, it’s about time I was; my feet are all right, an’ I’m full-up of loafin’.  Seems to me," said ’Possum, "that loafin’s all very well for a bit, an’ then it gets on your nerves.  The kids have been jolly good, an’ I pretend not to see a lot o’ things they do or they don’t do; but there’s lots o’ times I’d give me ears to be doin’ the work myself."