a few prospecting, in parties and singly, out on the flats and amongst
the ridges round Pipeclay. Sinking holes in search of a new Ballarat.
Dave Regan -- lanky, easy-going Bush native; Jim Bently --
a bit of a `Flash Jack'; and Andy Page -- a character like
what `Kit' (in the `Old Curiosity Shop') might have been
after a voyage to Australia and some Colonial experience.
These three were mates from habit and not necessity, for it was all
shallow sinking where they worked. They were poking down pot-holes
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