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Anyway, it didn't bring in money enough for the wolfhounds and and some other matters. So I went out to Australia and did something else. Now I can do the writing when I like, and well, old Finn there is in no danger of being sold to pay the butcher." "Ah yes, in Australia. I wanted the governor to let me go there when I left Rugby, boundary-riding, and that.
The Maluka spent one day with Dan beyond the "frontgate" his tail wagging along behind as a matter of course another day passed boundary-riding, inspecting water-holes, and doubling back to the Dandy's camp to see his plans; then, picking up the Quiet Stockman, we struck out across country, riding four abreast through the open forest-lands, and were camped at sundown, in the thick of the cattle, miles from the Dandy's camp, and thirty miles due north from the homestead.
"I don't suppose," said Mitchell; "I don't suppose it's any use asking you for a job?" "Naw." "Well, I won't ask you," said Mitchell, "but I don't suppose you want any fencing done?" "Naw." "Nor boundary-riding'?" "Naw." "You ain't likely to want a man to knock round?" "Naw." "I thought not. Things are pretty bad just now." "Na yes they are."
Then, without apparent reason, and certainly without any kind of warning, he would make tracks for the nearest township, and be seen no more outside its "hotel" till every penny he could lay hands upon was transferred to the publican's till. Then, if his employer cared to allow him to resume work, he would go back to his boundary-riding as contented and efficient as ever.
My mate, Joey Clynes, him that's on your ship, we was both born up beyond Bendigo. When we cut loose from the paternal leash, so to speak, we had a bit of boundary-riding, rabbit-killing, shearing and sun-downing all no good, year by year. Then we had a bit o' luck and found a mob of warrigals horses run wild, you know.
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