Part 9 (1/2)

”Well, Mr Tho; but, unfortunately, I had a hole in my pocket that I was not aware of, and--Thanks

I'll just take a pipeful”----

”No, no; shove it in your pocket I've got hby?”

”About a year I spent two months in Melbourne, and nearly four in Sydney

For the last sixin search of eh?”

”I do, Collins; to speak frankly, I do Even in your cities I observe a feverish excitement, and a demnable race for what the Scriptures aptly call 'filthy lucre'; and the pastoral regions are--well--rough indeed

Your colonies are too young In time to come, no doubt, the anificent private fortunes; but in thebut work--business--and so forth

Cultivated leisure is a thing practically unknown However, the country is h a necessary phase of development

In the near future, each of these shabby home--stations will be replaced by a noble mansion, with its spacious park; and these bare plains will reward the toil of an industrious and contented tenantry”----

”Like (sheol)!” sneered Mosey fro

”Irrigation, my dear Mosey, will meet the difficulty which very naturally arises in your ation would increase the letting value of this land more than a hundred-fold

Now, if the State would carry out such a system--by Heaven! Collins, you would soon have a class of country nates second to none in the world

You are a native of the colonies, I presue Garden”

”Victoria, I know, is called the Cabbage Garden,” rejoined Willoughby

”But--pardon me--if you are a native of Victoria, you can for the upperproclivity is held in very low esteem, I assure you

Our solicitude is to reeable; and the natural result is a grace and refineood does that do the likes o' us (fellows)?”

demanded Mosey impertinently--or perhaps I should say, pertinently

--”a grace and refine so-- you can form no conception of Inherited wealth is the secret of it”

”Beg parding,” interposed Cooper apologetically--”I was goin' to say to Collins, before I forgit, that he can easy git over bein' a Port Philliper

Friend o' mine, out on the Macquarie, name o' Mick Shanahan, he's one too; an' when anybody calls him a Port Philliper, or a Vic, or a 'Sucker, he coht: 'You're a (adj) liar,' says he; 'I'm a Cornstalk, born in New South Wales' An' he proves it too Born before the Separation, in the District of Port Phillip, Colony of New South Wales

That's his argyittin' over it Good idear, ain't it?”

”It is a good idea,” I replied ”I'hby, I can't help thinking you e very acutely”

”I do But what is the use of gru? Ver non semper viret

No doubt you are surprised to see , in the first place, to a curious combination of circumstances, and in the second place, to some of my own little pranks