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was good enough to send up the more expensive version 237 – are not always good for theirpromise to fetch her firewood from the creek, and fewer still take the trouble to chip it for thisnewfangled stove. Oh they have time – Mrs Forbes can hear them chiacking on the flat andkicking up the dust that makes its way under her rough eaves and settles on her table. In factshe can hear most things through her thin walls, and visitors no longer need to come to tellher the news of the camp. Besides, she has fewer visitors now. When Brother Hathawaycomes with his list and his questions, she can read from his ‘List of Aged People on Mission’the names of only seven of her old friends.Fred Johnson approx 80Mrs Fred Johnson approx 65Ted Coulthard approx 77Alice Coulthard approx 77Tim Wilton approx 67Aggie Ryan approx 60Rebecca Forbes – 77 238Few of the younger ones even remember why the old udnyu artu lives among them; theyknow it has always been like that, and from time to time they must check on her and tell theiraunties she is OK.Mrs Forbes hears the church bells of the new church – loud enough to wake the dead, sheis so close - and attends to see her old friends, at their insistence, and to sing the songs MrPage had taught them all, in the church that Mr Eaton tried to build for them, and which hasat last been completed in his name. 239165