He said, 'Be my partner;' and I said, 'What for ?' 'Darling Downs,' he said.

And I said I was only too highly honoured by such a mark of confidence from such a man, and that I closed with his offer at once.

To make a long matter short, he is off to the new country to take up ground under the name of Troubridge and Buckley.

There!" "But oughtn't you to have gone up with him, Sam ?" "I proposed to do so, as a matter of course," said Sam.

"But what do you think he said ?" "I don't know." "He gave me a great slap on the back," said Sam; "and, said he, 'Go home, my old lad, marry your wife, and fetch her up to keep house.' That's what he said.