(through James) of a buggy that some one had for sale cheap, or a dogcart

that somebody else wanted to get rid of -- and let me know about it,

There was good grass on the selection all the year. I'd picked up

a small lot -- about twenty head -- of half-starved steers

for next to nothing, and turned them on the run; they came on wonderfully,

and my brother-in-law (Mary's sister's husband), who was running a butchery

at Gulgong, gave me a good price for them. His carts ran out

twenty or thirty miles, to little bits of gold-rushes that were going on