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 The commissioner fined me because I forgot To return an old ewe that was ill of the rot; And a poor, wry-neck'd lamb that we kept for a pet, And he said it was treason such things to forget.

The commissioner pounded my cattle, because They had mumbled the scrub with their famishing jaws On the part of the run he had taken away, And he sold them by auction the cost to defray.

The Border police were out all the day, To look for some thieves who had ransack'd my dray; But the thieves they continued in quiet and peace, For they robb'd it themselves, had the Border police.

When the white thieves were gone next the black thieves appear'J, My shepherds they waddied, my cattle they spear'd; But for fear of my license I said not a word; For I knew it was gone if the government heard.

The commissioner's bosom with anger was fill'd Against me because my poor shepherd was kill'd; So he straight took away the last third of my run, And got it transferr'd to the name of his son.

The cattle that had not been sold at the pound, He took with the run at five shillings all round, And the sheep the blacks left me at sixpence a head, And a very good price the commissioner said.

The governor told me I justly was served; That commissioners never from duty had swerved; But that if I'd apply for any more land, For one pound an acre he'd plenty on hand.

TITYRE TU PATULÆ, &c.

ARGUMENT. Mivins, a Port Phillipian squatter, has been bought out of his run. On his road, with his sheep, looking for a new station, he meets Timmins, an old "lag," who, by "tipping" the Clerks at the Crown Land Office, has had his run kept out of the government sales.