That's the way to draft stock, whether they're cattle, sheep, or horses; then every man can buy what he likes best, and isn't obliged to lump up one sort with another.

We had time to have a bit of dinner.

None of us had touched a mouthful since before daylight.

Then we began to see the buyers come.
There'd been a big tent rigged, as big as a small woolshed, too.

It came out in a cart, and then another cart came with a couple of waiters, and they laid out a long table of boards on trestles with a real first-class feed on it, such as we'd never seen in our lives before.