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I assure you I have no such thing; and I believe that anyone, on arriving here, would receive a similar impression with myself. Choice of a Run Boundaries Maoris Wages Servants Drunkenness Cooking Wethers Choice of Homestead Watchfulness required Burning the Country Yards for Sheep Ewes and Lambs Lambing Season Wool Sheds Sheep Washing Putting up a Hut Gardens Farewell.
Be that as it may, when the King and Queen crossed the threshold, a mighty flourish of trumpets arose, and a waving of banners. For the ewes will go wherever you lead them; but the wethers will not, having strong opinions, and meaning to abide by them.
22 Mares, all in foal, 3 to 5 years old. 5 do., 5 to 8 years old. 7 Fillies, do., 2 to 3 years old. 3 do., rising 3 years, not in foal. 5 do., rising 2 years, not in foal. 10 Saddle and Draught Horses. 5 Colts, rising 4 years old. 1 Colt, rising 3 years old. 1 Colt, rising 2 years old. 1 Blood Stallion. 1 Draught entire Horse. 1 Entire Pony. 62 Total number of Horses. 900 Fat Wethers.
Then immediately in all disorder, without keeping either rank or file, they took the fields one amongst another, wasting, spoiling, destroying, and making havoc of all wherever they went, not sparing poor nor rich, privileged or unprivileged places, church nor laity, drove away oxen and cows, bulls, calves, heifers, wethers, ewes, lambs, goats, kids, hens, capons, chickens, geese, ganders, goslings, hogs, swine, pigs, and such like; beating down the walnuts, plucking the grapes, tearing the hedges, shaking the fruit-trees, and committing such incomparable abuses, that the like abomination was never heard of.
Exaggerated stories had reached us, brought by timid fat men on horseback, with bulky pocket-books, who came to buy our wethers for the Hokitika market, of "sticking up" having broken out on the west land. I fear my expressions are often unintelligible to an English reader, but in this instance I will explain.
So they crossed them in two herds, the wethers first, and then the ewes and lambs and all the little lambs that could not stem the stream were floated across in broad pieces of tarpaulin whose edges were held up by wading men.
The boy answered that a fox had killed the lamb, and that the wether had fallen into a bog; adding, 'I fancy I shall not be very lucky with my sheep. "When he heard this, the farmer gave him one ewe and two wethers, and asked him to remain another year in his service. Sigurdur consented to do so.
Now, striking a low average, the value in pounds of this herd of cattle, horses, and sheep, in South Australia, was: Horned Stock 8,550. Horses 3,720. Wethers 1,575. Total: 13,845 pounds. But between this and an ordinary mercantile risk no parallel can be drawn. A merchant insures his cargo so that his total loss can but be a small portion of the whole.
Such words as "ringbone" and "spavin" and "heaves" and "stringhalt" and "pastern" and "stifle" and "wethers" and "girth" and "hock," to the boy, seemed to establish, beyond all question, the intellectual greatness of the one who used them just as words of many syllables sometimes fix for older children the position on the intellectual heights of those who use them.
I was persistent in having them gratified, and succeeded, by being allowed the privilege of selling off the fat wethers whenever they became marketable, and replacing them with young ewes, which increased rapidly. These could be bought for much less than the wethers would sell for.
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