that it was `unoccupied Crown land', and so I took it up on pastoral lease,
and got a few more sheep -- I'd saved some of the best-looking ewes
One evening -- I was going down next day for a load of fencing-wire
`Joe! do you know that the Matthews have got a new double buggy?'
The Matthews were a big family of cockatoos, along up the main road,
and I didn't think much of them. The sons were all `bad-eggs',
though the old woman and girls were right enough.
`Well, what of that?' I said. `They're up to their neck in debt,
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