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Updated: September 10, 2025
So it happened that he ate hardly at all that day, and slept ill, and discovered the greatest difficulty in preserving the outward semblance of ease which the presence of Tim Shearer and the Fighting Forty demanded.
Wine, oil, currants, velvets, ecclesiastical benefices, university headships, licences to preach, to teach, to ride, to sail, to pick and to steal, all brought "grist to his mill." His grandfather, "the horse leach and shearer," never filled his coffers more rapidly than did Lord Robert, the fortunate courtier.
"Sister Shearer dear, what can I do to help this blessed work?" I inquired. "Sister Roberts, that washstand is all the furniture we have. Please go in the name of Jesus and ask for donations," she replied. Prayerfully I started on my errand, and soon had many promises from hotel proprietors and others. Shortly after this my son, having an ambition to see more of the world, grew restless.
Pretty soon that day Filon is hearing all sheepmen say that Raoul is the best shearer; then he come lean on the rail by my shed and laugh softly like he talk with himself, and say, "See the little man; see him shear." But me, I can no more. The shears turn in my hand so I make my sheep all bleed same like one butcher. Then I look up and see the devil in Filon Geraud's eye.
It was known in the little street that Nellie Lawton intended taking a holiday with an individual who was universally accepted as her "young man," and Ned's appearance upon the stage naturally made him a subject for discussion which temporarily over-shadowed even Mrs. Hobbs' baby. "I'm told he's a sort of a farmer," said one. "He's a shearer; I had it from Mrs. Phillips herself," said another.
"You see," he said in proud simplicity. With the added danger of freshet water, the work went on. At this moment Tim Shearer approached from inland, his clothes dripping wet, but his face retaining its habitual expression of iron calmness. "Anybody caught?" was his first question as he drew near. "Five men under the face," replied Thorpe briefly. Shearer cast a glance at the river.
"He got it out back, Peter," said Mitchell, the shearer. "He got it from a new chum." "How much did yer give for it, Dave?" growled Peter. "Five shillings, Peter," said Dave, round his pipe stem. "And stick of tobacco thrown in." Peter seemed satisfied, for he was heard no more that evening. You might work this yarn up. I've often thought of doin' it meself, but I ain't got the words.
He never drank with any one, nor asked any one to drink; and, strange to say, no one resented this. As Vic said: "He was different." Dicky Merritt, the solicitor, who was hail-fellow with squatter, homestead lessee, cockatoo-farmer, and shearer, called him "a lively old buffer." It was he, indeed, who gave him the name of Old Roses.
A station-hand, a roust-about, shearer, assistant to a travelling hawker, a gold-miner, and at last a trooper in one of the finest bodies of men in the world, the Queensland Mounted Police. It was in this curious fashion that I arrived at my real vocation. After a considerable period spent at headquarters, I was drafted to a station in the Far West.
With these must be connected a snub nose a double chin, adorned with grisly honors, which are borne, like the fleece of the lamb, only occasionally to the shears of the shearer and a small, and not unhandsome, mouth, at certain periods pursed into an expression of irresistible humour, but more frequently expressing a sense of lofty independence.
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