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 where ‘good is to be done’—that is, where work was easier to obtain, and wages were higher. Moving by easy stages, on 10th May they had reached Brewarrina, some 200 miles from Mullah, on the main stock road from Queensland. Here they ‘spelled’ for a few days, proceeding then towards Barringun with an eye open for a job with travelling stock. And on 16th June Boake writes from Thylungrah, in Queensland, saying that he is going with a drover to the Diamantina to bring back a mob of cattle.

On 11th August Boake writes to his father from Currawilla, Q., reciting some of his first droving experiences—

And the letter closes with ‘love to Grannie and the girls.’