hut well. It could not be farther than four miles, if as much as that,

from this point of the track. He also knew these dust-storms of old;

Bindarra was notorious for them: Without thinking twice, Alfred put

spurs to his horse and headed for the hut. Before he had ridden half the

distance the detached clouds of sand banded together in one dense

whirlwind, and it was only owing to his horse's instinct that he did not

ride wide of the hut altogether; for during the last half-mile he never

saw the hut, until its outline loomed suddenly over his horse's ears; and

by then the sun was invisible.--

"A Bride from the Bush."

It rained forty days and forty nights.--Genesis.

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