'Do you go far ?' 'Yes, it's a--rather a rough day,' said the artist; and then, feeling that he must change the conversation, 'My friend is an Australian; he is very impulsive,' he added.
'An Australian ?' said another.

'I've a brother myself in Melbourne.

Does your friend come from that way at all ?' 'No, not exactly,' replied the artist, whose ideas of the geography of New Holland were a little scattered.

'He lives immensely far inland, and is very rich.' The loafers gazed with great respect upon the slumbering colonist.
'Well,' remarked the second speaker, 'it's a mighty big place, is Australia.

Do you come from thereaway too ?' 'No, I do not,' said Pitman.