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"Twenty thousand dollars," replied Fred, weighing the bag with both hands; and no easy matter he found it to hold the gold at arm's length. "More than that," replied the stockman, with a smile of gratified pride at our pleasure. "Say thirty thousand, and you will come nearer the mark." "Five thousand shall go to reward you for your trouble," I said.
"And there are no judges upon earth to sentence its murderer," cried a solemn voice. We looked and found that the stockman had left the shadow of his hut, and was occupied the same way as ourselves, gazing at the carcass of the kangaroo. "Man is merciless, and God punishes us all in his own good time," the stockman continued, as he listened to the grief of the motherless animals.
When we joined Smith, we found that he had turned his oxen, and was driving them at full speed towards an open plain half a mile distant. "Are you going back to Melbourne?" asked Fred. "I am going to gain yonder plain as fast as possible," the stockman cried, casting an uneasy glance over his shoulder, as though fearful of pursuit. "For what reason?" we asked.
"To dissuade you all from drawing out on me," he explained, stroking his mustache with deliberate care. The Stockman called without comment. The Judge hesitated, swore ferociously, and finally called. Steve squeezed his cards with both hands for a final corroborative inspection, scratched his head and rolled his eye solemnly around the festal board.
"I am beginning to believe you boys will corral everything in sight if you keep on the way you've started. A grizzly, a sheep, and now an elk; and only thirty hours with me! H'm! Perhaps I may not be able to show you as much about big-game hunting as I expected," said the stockman, who seemed vastly amused at the energy shown by his young guests at the ranch.
I haven't been so happy for years," was the reply of the stockman, as he beamed upon the cluster of bright faces around him. "But you know you promised to make us a visit when we're home from college next Christmas. Don't forget that, sir!" declared Will. "I certainly will not, if I'm alive.
Browne, with Flood, my stockman, and Mack, to run them in; but the brush was too thick, and in galloping after a fine bull, Flood's carbine went off, and carried away and broke three of the fingers of his right hand.
After our experience of "getting hold of Johnny," Dan called it foolishness to wait for an expert, and the Dandy being away for the remainder of the stores, and the Quiet Stockman having his hands full to overflowing, the Maluka and Dan with that adaptability peculiar to bushmen, set to work themselves at the yard, with fifteen or twenty boys as apprentices.
"We have been after bushrangers, Bimbo," answered the lieutenant, dismounting from his horse and approaching the stockman, who still retained his reclining position against the side of the door. "And did you meet any?" asked the stockman, indifferently, stealing a look at the face of the officer as though anxious to obtain his answer before he uttered it.
There were two bedsteads made of hides, a table, two rough chairs, that looked as though introduced during the days of Sir Francis Drake, a few pans hanging against the wall, an old chest with a broken lid and no lock, and these were all the articles of luxury or convenience that graced the cabin of the stockman.
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