Men that make 300 or 400 Pounds of a night can afford to pay for accommodation.
The big houses in the bush, too.

Nothing's easier than to stick up one of them--lots of valuable things, besides money, often kept there, and it's ten to one against any one being on the look-out when the boys come.

A man hears they're in the neighbourhood, and keeps a watch for a week or two.

But he can't be always waiting at home all day long with double-barrelled guns, and all his young fellows and the overseer that ought to be at their work among their cattle or sheep on the run idling their time away.

No, he soon gets sick of that, and either sends his family away to town till the danger's past, or he 'chances it', as people do about a good many things in the country.