drover's wife

  • mum snake!

    her kids find a snake so she she rushed out and picked up her baby.
    the dog almost got it but the snake got in the house. so she set up a pillows and blankest on the kitchen table for her 4 kids to sleep on, as she say awake all night keeping watch.
  • sleep

    the children are restless and only get to sleep around midnight. as the thunder storm crashes and belts against the old house as the bush woman heads and thinks about her life.
  • husband

    her husband has been gone for 6 months now, she is used to it but she is starting to worry but she will not fret. she thinks about the time he was gone for over a year. she rembers the when she was young and hated this life style but now she is used to being alone.
  • kids

    she has had 5 kids but one died at birth she rode 19 miles with the dead newborn for help. now she has 2 boys and 2 girls she also has a dog.