Starlight has been barneying with me about sending for you.
But we've got a big thing on now, and I thought you'd like to be in it.' 'We have come,' says I, pretty short.

'Now we're here what's the play called, and when does the curtain rise?
We're on.' I was riled, vexed at Starlight talking as if we were children, and thought I'd show as we were men, like a young fool as I was.
'All right,' says father, and he sat down on a log, and began to tell us how there was any quantity of cattle running at the back where they were camped--a good lot strayed and mixed up, from the last dry season, and had never been mustered for years.

The stockmen hardly ever came out till the autumn musters.

One of the chaps that was in it knew all this side and had told them.

They were going to muster for a month or so, and drive the mob right through to Adelaide.