He's honest; and if you can keep him off the drink he'll do as well as anybody.

But neither Mick nor nobody else can do you no good at Ahalala.' With that he led them out of the gate, and nodding his head at them by way of farewell, left them to go back to Mrs.
Henniker's.
To Mrs.Henniker's they went, and there, stretched out at length on the wooden veranda before the house, they found the hero of the potatoes,--the man who had taken them down to Crinkett's house.

He seemed to be fast asleep, but as they came up on the boards, he turned himself on his elbow, and looked at them.

'Well, mates,' he said, 'what do you think of Tom Crinkett now you've seen him ?' 'He doesn't seem to approve of Ahalala,' said Dick.
'In course he don't.

When a new rush is opened like that, and takes away half the hands a man has about him, and raises the wages of them who remain, in course he don't like it.