As long as you'll pay 'em ten shillings a-day to loaf about, you may have men enough.

But whether they'll show you the way to anything except the liquor store, that's another thing.

Now shall I tell you what you two gents had better do ?' Dick declared that the two gents would be very much obliged to him if he would take that trouble.

'Of course you've heard of the "Old Stick-in-the-Mud" ?' Dick told him that they had heard of that very successful mining enterprise since their arrival at Nobble.

'You ask on the veranda at Melbourne, or at Ballarat, or at Sydney.