Then they all went off like wildfire; the big men and the little men bidding, quite jealous, sometimes one getting the lot, sometimes another.

One chap made a remark about there being such a lot of different brands; but Starlight said they'd come from a sort of depot station of his, and were the odds and ends of all the mobs of store cattle that he'd purchased the last four years.

That satisfied 'em, particularly as he said it in a careless, fierce way which he could put on, as if it was like a man's----impudence to ask him anything.

It made the people laugh; I could see that.
By and by we comes to the imported bull.

He was in a pen by himself, looking first-rate.