Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - ""IT'S time to go to the station, Tom."" ""Come on, then."" ""Oh, I'm not going; it's too wet. Shouldn't have a crimp left if I went out such a day as this; and I want to look nice when Polly comes."" ""You don't expect me to go and bring home a strange girl alone, do you?"" And Tom looked as much alarmed as if his sister had proposed to him to escort the wild woman of Australia.