If one's hit in fair fight it's the fortune of war.

What our side don't like is men going in for police duty that's not in their line.

That's interfering, according to our notions, and if they fall into a trap or are met with when they don't expect it they get it pretty hot.

They've only themselves to thank for it.
Goring, I could see by his ways, had been a swell, something like Starlight.

A good many young fellows that don't drop into fortunes when they come out here take to the police in Australia, and very good men they make.