And now the bell is going to ring, I think.' Jim and I stopped at Boree shed till all the sheep were cut out.

It pays well if the weather is pretty fair, and it isn't bad fun when there's twenty or thirty chaps of the right sort in the shearers' hut; there's always some fun going on.

Shearers work pretty hard, and as they buy their own rations generally, they can afford to live well.

After a hard day's shearing--that is, from five o'clock in the morning to seven at night, going best pace all the time, every man working as hard as if he was at it for his life--one would think a man would be too tired to do anything.

But we were mostly strong and hearty, and at that age a man takes a deal of killing; so we used to have a little card-playing at night to pass away the time.
Very few of the fellows had any money to spend.