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Next morning, Morris continued his journey; and when he unloaded about sixty miles this side of Mirrabooka he came right on to Riverina. Now, Collins; you put a d d big value on your acumen, and your sagacity, and your penetration, and all the rest of it What do you make of that story? Mind, I vouch for the truth of it." "There's a hitch somewhere, Mr. Stewart."
And the man who had a profanely long stage before him settled into an easy position, his heels on top of the splash-board, and his arms behind the back of the seat, whilst Bob held the reins. "It was on Mirrabooka. O'Grady Brothers had owned the place for a few years; but they were careless and intemperate, great lovers of racehorses, and d d extravagant all round"
The Department accepted it on these terms, and struck the section off the Mirrabooka assessment; but Prescott got wind of the thing before it was gazetted, and was moving heaven and earth to secure the reserve, just at the time Morris camped there.
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