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Rh to draft some bullocks to sell to a cattle-dealer who arrived at the station about the time we did.

"Two of the stockmen had been sent off very early in the morning to work the other side of the camp; we jogged on at an easy pace through alternating forest and open ground, where sometimes we could not see half a mile in any direction, and again coming out to ridges where we had an extensive view. We had gone about three miles when suddenly we came upon a mob of some fifty or sixty cattle that went off in the right direction as soon as they heard the cracking of the whips. Mr. Watson said they would go straight to the camp, and Fred