But the sheep are going by hundreds.

We mustered five hundred short in one paddock this month.
And there isn't a Doyle or a Donohoe cow but has three calves at least, and two of each three belong to us." He dared not prosecute them.

No local jury would convict in face of the hostility that would be aroused.

They had made "alibis" a special study; the very judges were staggered by the calmness and plausibility with which they got themselves out of difficulties.
A big station with a lot of hostile neighbours is like a whale with the killers round it; it is open to attack on all sides, and cannot retaliate.

A match dropped carelessly in a patch of grass sets miles of country in a blaze.