What at ?" "Can't you see sheep down below, and quite a drove of bullocks ?" "No," said Nic: "my eyes are not used to it--yours are." "Yes, mine are," said the man.

"Those were your father's cattle and sheep, and some of Dillon's from the next station, and other people's from farther still; and now they belong to nature.

Don't you think your father is a fool to come and live where he loses his stock down a trap like that ?" "No, I don't," said Nic haughtily, for the man repelled him.

"I think he was very wise to come and live in the most beautiful place I ever saw." "I don't," said the man, laughing curiously, as if it hurt him and gave him pain.

"I think the place hideous.