The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-18

colored shirt and cabbaee-tree hat. and had
some weeks good sport after the wallaby
and kangaroo, and flying around the outside
fringes of the cattle rum.
Then came the time for real work. and.
packing his town traps. Ned went down 10
Sydney. took chambers in the heart of brief
less Bardom, in Castlereagh street. and
waited to see what the attorneys would do
ror him. With the exception of 25s 81 from
a little solicitor in King street. who drank
over . pounds worth OF 'tanglefoot" at
Ned's expense beforehand, he made nothing
in the first year. and spent ESQ supplied
him by his fond mother. In the second
year he made 60 guineas out Of q temporary
appointment az Crown Prosecutor on one
of the circuits. the thing being engineered
by the Member for the Macquarie. who had
some regard for the twenty-odd votes which
the Grant Station mustered.
After the spree with which Ned celebrated
his receipt of the 6o-guinea check from the
Department Of Justice had cleared on. and
Ned's swelled head got down. SO that he
could wear his nail-keg hat again. business
went to the dogs: as a fact. he did NJ more.
AAS hte a. eAS
politan unfortunately turned out to have a
who visited the chambers in Castlereagh
street one day to inquire. In a cold. anxious
way. whether Ned's intentions were honor
able. and when he got rid Of her Ned
dabbed a scribb1ed line on his door-"Gone
to Darlinghurst'-ths place where the Ses-
sions are.
nhah~a AAfAAA. ~ H. - l..
morist Of his immediate circle. wrote un-
derneath the notice. Back In six months"
but Ned only heard Of the joke afterwards:
he never saw It. for Castlereagh street knew
him no more. The barmaid of the Metro
politan was one thing; Bah Anderson. the
pretty and accomplished daughter Of the
Honorable Andrew Anderson. NJ. L. C. and
Q. c., was another. Ned had. through a
meeting at Government House once. got in
with the Anderson circle. and pretty Miss
Barbara. who could take a fence very well.
and who. in fact. preferred the saddle and
the breezy downs to the tennis lawn or
drawing-room. rather took to the bushman
barrister for his unconventional ana manly
ways.
Ned stopped . runaway buggy loaded with
a beer-stricken driver, q nurse and a quar-
tet Of Riddles. in the woollahra road one day,
and hat settled things for Bah Anderson.
who was with him at the time. and had op-
portunity to fully appreciate the heroism Of
the act.
Old Anderson. who had been through the
whole bar mill himself. liked Ned wen
enough personally. but could not blind his
eyes to the fact that the handsome gum
sucker from the MacQuarie had practically
no prospect of ever becoming even the At
torney General Of his Colony, much less q
successful practitioner at the bar. But there
was something substantial on the Mac
Quarie. Ned's grandfather had been q pris-
on warder in the early days Of the Botany
Bay settlement. had always discharged his
duties well and conscientiously. and at the
end had been given q grant Of Crown land
up by the KurraJong. The son who came
after him made good use Of his opportuni-
ties. and when Blaxland, Wentworth and
the others pioneered their way up the face
Of the Blue Mountains and across the pla-
teau and plains beyond, the second Grant
followed soon after. and. with north-country
s~hrewdness. struck a fine patch of country
out on the rolling downs beyond the Mum
doorau.
There he IN time surrounded himself with
nocks and herds. made much money By
having his cattle "droved' to the various
g~old-diggins centers IN New South Wales
and Victoria in the 'hfties." and By keep
ing mp the standard OF his merino OUTPUT
On the Tambaroora and at Maitland Bar,
on the Turon. and even up az far as the
Hanging Rock at Nundie. as well as down
to the Araluen. and way back and down to
Ta~kahdandah and C~hiltern-even to distant
Ballarat and Be~ndigo-cattle from Grant's
Bugerawa station were favorite beef in the
butcherS hands. and the demand for that
particular brand only fell OF whom an the
drovers from the Riverina ana the Upper
Murrumbidsee sold their mobs a. Bueerava
cattle.
30 with the wool. Buserawa merino vas
always good in Sydney for q penny a pound
moro than any other brand; and II was only
when all the wool bales going down to Cir
cular Quay began to wear the "E. q. Buge-
rawa" mark hat the wool brokers IN the
capital commenced to 30 slow In pushing
the famous Aacquarie clip. But the whole
accumulated wealth was there on Bugera-
va. or between there and the bank In
George street: and Ned Grant. who would
be the head Of his family when his Kovernor
went to sleep. was worth looking after. for
all his dismal failure At the bar.
30 It came out that the woorahra O. C..
who was . shrewd man in his vsv ana
genial In his middle age. having achieved
n political success, rather
Encouraged h otherwise growing AZ
fection between his daughter ana the MID.
less Barman.