They went through Wagga-Wagga and Murrumburra, and other places with similar names, till at last they were told that they had reached Nobble.

Nobble they thought was the foulest place which they had ever seen.

It was a gold-digging town, as such places are called, and had been built with great rapidity to supply the necessities of adjacent miners.

It was constructed altogether of wood, but no two houses had been constructed alike.

They generally had gable ends opening on to the street, but were so different in breadth, altitude, and form, that it was easy to see that each enterprising proprietor had been his own architect.