We of the Never-NeverWith illustrations from photographs . ggested; and then exploding atwhat he called his tomfoolery, set the dining-netall a-quivering and shaking. Gone clean dilly, I believe, he declared, afterthinking that he had better be making a movefor the last train. Then, mounting his waitinghorse, he splashed through the creek again, and dis-appeared into the moonlit grove of pandanus palmsbeyond it. The waggons spelled for two days at the War-lochs, and we saw much of the Macs. Then theydecided to push on ; for not only were othersfarther in waiting for the waggons, but dailythe d
We of the Never-NeverWith illustrations from photographs . ggested; and then exploding atwhat he called his tomfoolery, set the dining-netall a-quivering and shaking. Gone clean dilly, I believe, he declared, afterthinking that he had better be making a movefor the last train. Then, mounting his waitinghorse, he splashed through the creek again, and dis-appeared into the moonlit grove of pandanus palmsbeyond it. The waggons spelled for two days at the War-lochs, and we saw much of the Macs. Then theydecided to push on ; for not only were othersfarther in waiting for the waggons, but dailythe dry stages were getting longer and drier ; and theshorter his dry stages are, the better a bullock-puncher likes them. With well-nursed bullocks, and a full complementof them—the Macs had twenty-two per waggonfor their dry stages—a thirty-five-mile dry canbe rushed, the waggoners getting under wayby three oclock one afternoon, travelling all nightwith a spell or two for the bullocks by the way, and punching them into water within twenty-fourhours. 1G8. WE OF THE NEVER-NEVER Getting over a fifty-mile dry is, however, amore complicated business, and suggests a waggons are pulled out ten miles in the lateafternoon, the bullocks unyoked and brought backto the water, spelled most of the next day, given alast drink and travelled back to the waiting waggonsby sundown ; yoked up and travelled on all thatnight and part of the next day ; once more unyokedat the end of the forty miles of the stage ; takenforward to the next water, and spelled and nursed upagain at this water for a day or two ; travelled backagain to the waggons, and again yoked up, andfinally brought forward in the night with the loadsto the water. Fifty miles dry with loaded waggons being thelimit for mortal bullocks, the Government breaksthe seventy-five with a drink sent out intanks on one of the telegraph station stage thus broken into a thirty-five-mile dry,with another of forty on top of
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