. Il ragazzo di viaggiatori in Oceania : le avventure di due giovani in un viaggio per il sandwich, Marquesas, società, e Samoa Isole Feejee, e attraverso le colonie di Nuova Zelanda, Nuovo Galles del Sud, Queensland, Victoria e Tasmania e South Australia. mese egli sarebbe perso dal paddock. Ina o due giorni si è ripresentato, e quasi sempre con una sella e alcuni-bodys swag, o il bagaglio e legato ad esso. Una volta che egli è tornato di nuovo in sella e un swag contenente, tra le altre cose, trenta ouncesof gold-polvere, e nessuno ha mai apparso la rivendicazione. Un altro momento hebrought in venti once e tre andare

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. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. month he would be missed from the paddock. Ina day or two he reappeared, and almost always with a saddle and some-bodys swag, or baggage, strapped to it. Once he came back with anew saddle and a swag containing, among other things, thirty ouncesof gold-dust, and nobody ever appeared to claim it. Another time hebrought in twenty ounces and three gold watches. Altogether, in thecourse of a year, he was stolen about twenty times, and must havebrought home two or three thousand dollars worth of gold-dust, to say A HOESE-TEADERS TEICK. 397 He kept the place supplied with saddles all I suppose nothing of the saddles, the time I was there. A very profitable horse, remarked Doctor Bronson.the owner was not wilhng to sell him V Not by any means, was the reply. He used to say that he hadonly to set that horse in the paddock as he would any other trap, and the thieves walked in at once. *• That reminds me of a Melbourne horse story, said one of thelisteners. Being pressed to give it, he did so.. THE RUSH FOR THE GOLD-MINES. In the days of the gold rush in 1851, said he, there were twomen in Melbourne who made a fortune in horse-trading. They hadtwo or three horses trained for their business, and when a party wasfitting: out for the mines, one of these horses would be offered for sale.Of course the would-be purchasers wanted to try the animal first, andthe dealer would point to a steep hill on Bourke Street, and suggestthat the horse be tried with a load up that hill. The animal was attached to a loaded dray, and straightway pulledit to the top of the hill without hesitation or pause. Of course that 398 THE BOY TKAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. settled the question of his usefulness, and he would be sold at a goodprice ; but when attached

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