We wanted to have time to draft them into pens of twenty to fifty each, so that the farmers and small settlers might have a chance to buy.

Besides, it was the last day of our work.

Driving all day and watching half the night is pretty stiffish work, good weather and bad, when you've got to keep it up for months at a time, and we'd been three months and a week on the road.
The other chaps were wild for a spree.

Jim and I had made up our minds to be careful; still, we had a lot to see in a big town like Adelaide; for we'd never been to Sydney even in our lives, and we'd never seen the sea.

That was something to look at for the first time, wasn't it?
Well, we got the cattle drafted to rights, every sort and size and age by itself, as near as could be.