Crossword-Solution: BILLABONG 9 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Ten years ago the Grimes family had come to live in Waterloo, when the Bank of New Guinea had finally dispensed with Dad's services as manager at Billabong.

The Duchess belonged to the Church of England, and it had been one of the sights of Billabong to see her move down the aisle on Sunday like a frigate of Nelson's time in full sail; but she had overcome her scruples, and sent Clara to the convent school for finishing lessons in music, dancing, and painting.

Billabong homestead lay calm and peaceful in the slanting rays of the sun that crept down the western sky.

Outsiders--mothers of prim daughters, whom Norah pictured as finding their wildest excitement in "patting a doll"--were wont to deplore that the only daughter of David Linton of Billabong was brought up in an eccentric fashion, less girl than boy; but outsiders are apt to cherish delusions, and Norah was not without her share of gentle accomplishments.

All that the bush could teach her Norah knew, and in most of the work of the station--Billabong was a noted cattle-run--she was as handy as any of the men.