The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-05-04

Il dinna want wood-cutter," said
Moffat AN l dinna want a shoe
man An dinna want cook"
You want a bullocky?"
AYE But hire men tae drive
ma bulocks, an no half-baked boy
dinnah give such-nke billets tae new
chums"
Never asked you to-" said Tony
botly.
rrve driven a twenty-team on the
Murrumbidgee heaps Of times
Harnessed tae go-cart wi you
tied intae it,"
Harnessed to a threshing-plant
with three rivers to ford and the ire
box alight all the tim92 sald Tony.
Moffat looked straig8t at him Tony
was the slim-ryq light-built Austrai-
sFaas.preed that grows pluck first and
lf,1in between, and muscle vixen
Eime Tony had not much mus
iyet
Fat rubbed his nose slowly. III
We he said. MA men air gey
Oh DOT at the camp; but ! 1alouse
haze tongue tae hauld we safe Yen
led 1t. Weel; I'll send oopward by
e tae Robinson. Dye ken the way?
!!Up to Tregellan's Gap, round the
ironstone shoulder, and follow your
nose till you strike the tramline.
Moffat grinned. "Ye has come Wi
ye're lessen weel conned Yell dae
Ave; I'll send Robinson a screed, an
s'll cit oop theer afore the NIGHT.
Tony had tramped eight miles along
he Western Tiers land these hold
some of the toughest country in Tas-
lania) that day. He tramped ten
iore@ heeare hao stgBtad -tsa- logging
mp, sunk deep in great green shad
US OF heavy BUSH and flooded witt
arlet of the after-glow that siftet
rough the half-cleared gun-scrul
venty men loafed, smoking, abou
long hut made of unsQuared tree
nks Tony walked straight into tn
ist Of them, and handed over hi
r to a red-bearded, hawk-eyeC
who carried himself as one il
ority Robinson tore open tn
slope, grinning.
Vhat yer wantin', sonny?" he said
read the note through Then h
Town on the chopping block.
ELL, | am blest,' he said. rs oil
At gone off his chump?' Tony
and ears burnt, but he stood tn
Of stares unflinchinglyH Il ha,
ok at the bullocks as l cam
ugh the clearing" he said
eyre not a bad lot; but you ough
we more sense than to keep tina
Az L.
swelled nearfore. He's got TEN
4, III bet"
"a low-browed bull-necked maj
Nioo ked up. Where did Moffat pic
mp that kid?' he demanded. 1T tu'
us all O ten months ter find out wha
Buster cud do when he liked"
"The kids a bulloclSy like yerself,
said Robinson, dryly "Moffat sen
him up ter take Cobhams place. Hel
run on the lines with you, Jake" Jak
heaved his huge bulk upright Blu
the blare Of great cow-bell in tn
cooks two hands broke Jake's words
and the men poured headlong into tn
nut.
Under the rattle of tin plates an
panniAns, the shouts for tea and milk
and the rough chan that flew broad
cast down the length of the unpIane
table, Tony found a place on a form
and stared round. The smell of IT,
clean peppermint wood and the wat
tie was in the very breath Of the room
and the gum Of bleeding trees was O.
the hair of the mems necks and arms
Tony Rugged himself and his eye
shone BY the movements haz
through the steam from pannikins an
hot meats; by the great ripping mus
cles. and the great roars OF laughte,
he knew that he had come 10 hold hi
own amongst men.
Bullock driving is done by tn
swing Of a twenty foot whip. and til
tones Of the voice. There are no rein
and just a little mere harness. A bul
lock team can tangle itself more ef
fieiently than kitten with a skein o
wool when it likes; and it is not s.
easily picked up and Strengthened
Tony knew an this But he had tn
love for animals which is really gen
ius, and the cool head which is th
most valuable asset OF the man VIII
would work amongst them. He saw