You must tell us all about your travels when we sit down.' When George came in he began to talk to make up for lost time, and told us where he had been--a long way out in some new back country, just taken up with sheep.

He had got a first-rate paying price for his carriage out, and had brought back and delivered a full load of wool.
'I intend to do it every year for a bit,' he said.

'I can breed and feed a good stamp of draught horse here.

I pay drivers for three waggons and drive the fourth myself.

It pays first-rate so far, and we had very fair feed all the way there and back.' 'Suppose you get a dry season,' I said, 'how will that be ?' 'We shall have to carry forage, of course; but then carriage will be higher, and it will come to the same thing.