Well, they may do for shepherds, in places where no drink is to be had for love or money, but you would scarcely care about having them as butlers; so you see, we are driven to the three classes I spoke of.
I have been exceptionally lucky.

The man who carried the things upstairs just now, and who is my chief man here, is an ex-convict." Reuben looked surprised.
"He was assigned to me when he first got his ticket of leave.

I found him a good hand, and he stood by me pluckily, when my station was attacked by the blacks.

So next time I came down to the town, I asked what he had been sent out here for.

I found it was for having been concerned in a poaching fray, in which some of the game keepers got badly hurt.