The liberated educator does not accept soft-minded religiosity because it embraces all kinds of superstitions.

Perceiving, however, that I had on my best wig, she offered, if I would ’squire her there, to send home the footman.

They were good wurleys at the beginning of the winter, but towards the latter end of the winter they got turned out of them by the fleas—which they frequently do. They have been turned out of the last wurley some time in August; and I gave them a lot of reeds and tried to persuade them to build some more wurleys. They said they did not require them as they were going to corroboree, and they did not like building new wurleys—they must have a make-shift wurley.

I had notions that Noel knew this and suggested it on purpose as some sort of mind-fuckery.