Yon are so tired already you can hardly stand this moment." "Get me some strong coffee--at once.

You don't know what that man has done for us.

I'll tell you all another time.

I owe him more than a ride into Maryborough.

I'll make the men get Yorkie up"-- Yorkie was a favorite horse he had--"while you make the coffee; and I'll lead Colonel"-- Colonel was another horse, well esteemed at Gangoil.
"Jackson will come quicker on him than on any animal he can get at Maryborough." And so it was arranged, in spite of the wife's tears and entreaties.