This was to be a raid EN MASSE and on horseback.

The whole country-side was to assemble at Shingle Hut and proceed thence.

It assembled; and what a collection! Such a crowd! such gear! such a tame lot of horses! and such a motley swarm of lean, lank, lame kangaroo-dogs! We were not ready.

The crowd sat on their horses and waited at the slip-rails.

Dogs trooped into the yard by the dozen.