saved the labour and the time lost in dragging heavy buckets of dirt along

a low lengthy drive to the shaft outside the fence. But it was very doubtful

if the Government could have been moved to open the cemetery

even on the strongest evidence of the existence of a rich goldfield under it,

and backed by the influence of a number of diggers and their backers --

which last was what Dave wished for least of all. He wanted,

above all things, to keep the thing shady. Then, again,

the old clannish local spirit of the old farming town,