If we lost it seemed as if everything was so much the worse, and blacker than it looked at first, just for this bit of hope and comfort.
After the bull had been sworn to by Mr.Hood and another witness, they brought up some more evidence, as they called it, about the other cattle we had sold in Adelaide.

They had fetched some of the farmers up that had been at the sale.

They swore straight enough to having bought cattle with certain brands from Starlight.

They didn't know, of course, at the time whose they were, but they could describe the brands fast enough.
There was one fellow that couldn't read nor write, but he remembered all the brands, about a dozen, in the pen of steers he bought, and described them one by one.

One brand, he said, was like a long-handled shovel.