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Now Gonsalvez had opened his mouth to say something, but here compressed his lips for a moment before answering. "No: it is still in my power to allot." "In England just now," went on Master d'Arfet "we should call ten shillings an acre good rent for unstocked land. We take it at sixpence per annum rent and twenty years' purchase.
Between the Waramble and Nareen there is no perceptible rising ground; from the harder nature of the soil, the plain becoming more open, and the timber straighter and larger. I have no doubt that there is a gradual ascent. The grass is extremely luxuriant, like all the unstocked portions of rich ground in this country, the long kangaroo grass rising to the saddle skirts.
It was with this merciful purpose that God not only permitted Cain to live, but commanded that none should slay him. You must live for this!" "Yet I slew HER!" He did with me as he pleased. Three days after beheld us on our way to the rich empire of Texas its plains, rich but barren unstocked, wild-running to waste with its tangled weeds needing, imploring the vigorous hand of cultivation.
Considering these facts, I think it would be an inexplicable circumstance if water-birds did not transport the seeds of fresh-water plants to unstocked ponds and streams, situated at very distant points. The same agency may have come into play with the eggs of some of the smaller fresh-water animals. Other and unknown agencies probably have also played a part.
Tracking three stray steers, I had reached the station at sunset. I had come more than sixty miles nearly all unstocked country in two days, and with only one chance meal.
Their place was called Boolabong, and was a cattle-run, as distinguished from a sheep-run; but it was a poor place, was sometimes altogether unstocked, and was supposed to be not unfrequently used as a receptable for stolen cattle. The tricks which the Brownbies played with cattle were notorious throughout Queensland and New South Wales, and by a certain class of men were much admired.
The thing that made us most uneasy was the weather. It was threatening for a thunderstorm. At this time we were in that unstocked country south-east of the station. Suddenly Bob rose up from his stoop, and looked round at me with a face on him like a ghost. "'God help us now, if we don't get a blackfellow quick! says he, pointing at the ground before him.
On a neighbouring island of the same group unstocked with goats, no change in the habits of the birds has taken place. Among the rocks of Purtaboi, in cool dark grottoes, the brown-winged tern rears her young. She often permits herself to be trapped rather than indicate her presence by voluntary flight. One of the most graceful of the sea-swallows this.
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