Only if we'd sold to any one that thought there was a cross look about it, we'd have had to take half money, that's all.

They've fetched a rattling price, through Starlight's working the oracle with those swells, and no mistake.' 'Yes, but that ain't all of it,' says the old man, filling his pipe.
'We've got to look at what comes after.

I never liked that imported bull being took.

They'll rake all the colonies to get hold of him again, partic'ler as he sold for near three hundred pound.' 'We must take our share of the risk along with the money,' said Jim.
'We shall have our whack of that according to what they fetched to-day.
It'll be a short life and a merry one, though, dad, if we go on big licks like this.

What'll we tackle next--a bank or Government House ?' 'Nothing at all for a good spell, if you've any sense,' growled father.
'It'll give us all we know to keep dark when this thing gets into the papers, and the police in three colonies are all in full cry like a pack of beagles.