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An Outback Marriage

CHAPTER XVIII
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"Not cattle that go in carts, eh ?" "Carts, no.

The way we get wild cattle here-abouts is to take out a mob of quiet cattle, what we call coachers, and let 'em feed in the moonlight alongside the scrub, while we wait back out o' the road and watch 'em.

When the wild cattle come out, they run over to see the coachers, and we dash up and cut 'em off from the scrub, and hustle 'em together into the open.

It's good sport, Mister.

We might try a dash at it, if you like, before we go back; it's moonlight now." "Let's have a try to-night" said Gordon.


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