That touching of the hat is a very rare piece of courtesy from working men in Australia.

The convicts are forced to do it, and so the free men make it a point of honour not to do so.
"Oh!" said I, "I have got a groom who calls himself Dick.

I found him sorefooted in the bush the day I met the Major.

He was trying to pick you up.

He asked me to tell you that he was afraid to cross the range alone on account of the blacks, or he would have come up with you.