The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-25

uously, and at the end had been given
grant of crown land up by the Kurra-
Jong. The son who came after him made
I good use of his opportunities, and when
BlaXand, Wentworth, and the others
pioneered their way up the face of the
Blue Mountains, and across the plateau
and plains beyond, the second Grant fol
lowed soon after, and with north country
shreWdness, struck a fine patch of couu-
try out on the rolling downs beyond the
Mundooran
There he III time surrounded himself
win locks ard herds, made much money
by having his cattle "droved' to the
various gold-digging centers in New
South Wales and Victoria in the ''ifties -
and by keeping up the standard of his
meGino output. On the Tambaroora and
at Maitland Bar, on the Turon. and even
up as far as the Hanging Rock, at NundIe
! as well as down to the Araluen, and away
! BACK and down to Yakahdandah and Chill.
! tern-CVen to distant Ballarat and Ben
! dlSo-cattle from Grants Bugerawa sta
! ton were faVorite beef in The butchers
| hands, and the demand for that Dartfcu-
lar brand only fell off when ali the drov-
ers from the Riverina and the upper Muir
! rumbidgee sold their mobs as Bugera wa
/ cattle.
So with the wool Bugerawa merino
was always good in Sydney for a penny
pound more than any other brand; and
1t was only when all the wool bales going.
! down to Circular Quay began to wear tho
e. G. Bugerawa" mark that the WOOL
! brokers in the capital commenced to go
! slow IN pushing the famous NIacuuarie
! clip. But the whole accumulated wealth
was there on Bugerawa, or between
! there and the bank in George street; and
Ned Grant, who would be the head >of
his family when his governor went to
! sleep, was worth looking after for all his
dismal failure at the bar
So it came out that the Woollahra O.
! G., who was a shrewd man in his way
/ and genial in his middle age, having
achieved professional and political sue
cess, rather encouraged than otherwise
the growing affection between his daugh-
ter and the briefess barman.
T Bah and Ned saw much of each other
and spent many happy hours together
in the gardens AIT Woollahra and on the
cliffs at Bondi and Coogee. But the old
| lady in WoolloOmooloO kept Worrying
and az last, after consoling razzIe dazzle
| with some legal chums in Sydney, Ned
Grant bade good-by to everything on the
/ shores of Port Jackson and made tracks
for the back blocks. Dubbo meant an
| other spree-a bad one that time-and it
came about that Ned could not find him
self sufficiently coura geous to face Bug
erawa at all. There was the degradation
of failure at his profession, after thou
sands of pounds had been spent on his
education for it; there would be the mods
and becks and wreathed smiles of the
station hands, and the sneers. of the cock
q riyy OF tIo
squatter's incompetency, and even his
personal reputation would be winked
! down.
So Ned Grant did what many a man
in Australia had done before him, and
many will do again; he struck a
| crow line away from the old home
thought out another name for himself,
! and tramped his way, after the sun, into
! the Western Riverina.
! Long and weary foot-traveling along
] the dusty roads of the New South Wales
| back-blocks has a curious and depress-
| ing effect on mans clothes and per-
! scnal system. Spruce enough when he
! started from Dubbo Bob Edwards Gate
/ Ned Grant, was a rough enough locking
! customer when ne turned up one sun
/ down at Bradford's wool-shed on the
| Yangollen station, not far from Booigal
! Wild-eyed, with Slovenly locks and dust
! covered. torn apparel, Bob Edwards went
! to the shed oveTseer's humpy. and asked
! for a jon at shearing. The clip was
! heavy that season. and Yangollen was
/ short-handed. so Bob was given a crib
! in the shearors quarters.
| Next morning he was given pair Of
: shears and pen in the shed, and proving
himself a steady worker and no ".inger,"
! ne soon gol into the good graces of the
! shed-hoss There was never shout of
/ 'tar-hoy' from Bob's pen. and even the
! sheep that passed through his hands ap-
! peared to take a fancy to him. 50 tender
| " did he serve them.
! Shear.ng over at Yaag0llen. Bob 1rC W
his cheque and started off again his ack
to the old home on the cmley- haunted