I should like to have been on the river, but they say we are very lucky." "I am so glad to see you," said Mary; "James Stockbridge said you would be sure to come; otherwise, we should have sent over for you.

What do you think of my boy ?" She produced him from an inner room.

He was certainly a beautiful child, though very small, and with a certain painful likeness to his father, which even I could see, and I could not help comparing him unfavourably, in my own mind, with that noble six-year-old Sam Buckley, who had come to my knee where I sat, and was looking in my face as if to make a request.
"What is it, my prince ?" I asked.
He blushed, and turned his handsome gray eyes to a silver-handled riding-whip that I had in my hand "I'll take such care of it," he whispered, and, having got it, was soon astride of a stick, full gallop for Banbury Cross.
James and Troubridge came in.

To the former I had much to tell that was highly satisfactory about our shearing; and from the latter I had much to hear about the state of both the new stations, and the adventures of a journey he had had back towards Sydney to fetch up his sheep.

But these particulars will be but little interesting to an English reader, and perhaps still less so to an Australian.