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198 boughten land that Allan ploughs, and I think the wheat-field makes the place heartsome."

"I'm sure my eyes were glad to see the green corn as I came near the place. I think Branxholm has more of an English look than any station I ever saw, either on this side or in Victoria, and I've seen some hundreds," said George. "I had rather be a farmer than a shepherd any day."

"So should I," said Allan. "I am glad I was not sent to Gundabook."

"And yet you know well that farmers are the most grumbling, discontented set of folk on the face of the earth," said McCallum. "God Almighty can never send weather to please them, and it's no in the power of man to satisfy them with the prices."

"And are the sheep and cattle farmers aye satisfied?" said Mrs. Lindsay.

"They make much more money," said McCallum.

"They whiles lose it too," said Mrs. Lindsay. "I'm no saying anything against the sheep, for no doot the goodman has done weel wi' them; but I ken less aboot them than the farm. But it has aye seemed to me that there is great waistrie at they big stations, sic waistrie as we hae nane o' here, except in the matter o' the fruit, and