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Updated: May 26, 2025
This is a work of difficulty. All hands are required to achieve it, and often several neighbours will come over to assist. A small paddock, or a stockyard, opens out of the larger one wherein the herd is assembled. The slip-panels between are guarded by four men. Others on horseback, armed with the formidable loud-cracking stock-whips, drive the cattle slowly towards the gate.
The rails are fixed into holes, bored and wedged in the posts. Slip-panels form an entrance. Such was our first stockyard a substantial, thoroughly secure, and cattle-proof enclosure. And it is as good now as it was eight years ago.
Then comes a tussle to get that particular beast out of the yard while the others shall be kept in. Often, in spite of the dreaded stockwhips, one of the guardians of the slip-panels gets knocked over, and then away goes the mob of terrified beasts, tearing along the beach, and giving no end of trouble to get them back again.
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