They didn't collar a 40-acre selection, as they do now--spend all their money in getting the land and squat down as bare as robins--a man with his wife and children all under a sheet of bark, nothing on their backs, and very little in their bellies.

However, some of them do pretty well, though they do say they have to live on 'possums for a time.

We didn't do much, in spite of our grand start.
The flat was well enough, but there were other places in the gullies beyond that that father had dropped upon when he was out shooting.

He was a tremendous chap for poking about on foot or on horseback, and though he was an Englishman, he was what you call a born bushman.

I never saw any man almost as was his equal.