[An Outback Marriage by Andrew Barton Paterson]@TWC D-Link bookAn Outback Marriage CHAPTER XVIII 1/21
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THE WILD CATTLE. Carew awoke next morning to find that it was broad daylight, and the horses had been run in, caught, and saddled, all ready for a start to the run.
Breakfast was soon disposed of, and the cavalcade set out.
Naturally, the old man had heaps of questions to ask about his inheritance, and made the Englishman ride alongside while he questioned him. "If I go to England after this money, Mister, I suppose they won't be handin' me out ten years for perjury, same as they done for Roger Tichborne, eh? I won't have no law case, will I ?" "Shouldn't think so.
You've been advertised for all over the place, I believe." "Ha! Well, now they've got me they mightn't like me, don't you see? I never took no stock in them unclaimed-money fakes.
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