It wasn't a nice thing to think of; and now and then it used to make both of us take an extra drop of grog by way of driving the thoughts of it out of our heads.

That's the worst of not being straight and square.

A man's almost driven to drink when he can't keep from thinking of all sorts of miserable things day and night.

We used to go to the horse-yards now and then, and the cattle-yards too.

It was like old times to see the fat cattle and sheep penned up at Flemington, and the butchers riding out on their spicy nags or driving trotters.