If we could get the cattle together and clear off before anything was suspected the rest was easy.

The yard was nearly up, and Jim and I wired in and soon finished it.

It didn't want very grand work putting into it as long as it would last our time.
So we put it up roughly, but pretty strong, with pine saplings.
The drawing in was the worst, for we had to 'hump' the most of them ourselves.

Jim couldn't help bursting out laughing from time to time.
'It does seem such a jolly cheeky thing,' he said.

'Driving off a mob of cattle on the quiet I've known happen once or twice; but I'm dashed if ever I heard tell of putting up duffing improvements of a superior class on a cove's run and clearing off with a thousand drafted cattle, all quiet and regular, and him pottering about his home-station and never "dropping" to it no more than if he was in Sydney.' 'People ought to look after their stock closer than they do,' I said.
'It is their fault almost as much as ours.