He's up at Kuryong now, driving my brother Hugh out of his mind.

Hugh would as soon have an attack of faceache as see old Bully looming up the track.

Every time he goes up he shifts every blessed sheep out of every paddock, and knocks seven years' growth out of them putting them through the yards; then he overhauls the store, and if there's a box of matches short he'll keep Hugh up half the night to account for it.

He sacks all the good men and raises the wages of the loafers, and then comes back to Sydney quite pleased; it's a little holiday to him.

You come along with me, Carew, and let old Bully alone.
What did you come out for?
Colonial experience ?" An Englishman hates talking about himself, and Carew rather hesitated.
Then he came out with it awkwardly, like a man repeating a lesson.
"Did you ever meet a man named Considine out here ?" he said.
"Lots of them," said Gordon promptly--"lots of them.