I will do my best to show myself worthy of your confidence." "You will have all your work cut out for you, Reuben.

The district has, all along, been a most troublesome one.

The number of settlers, at present, is small.

There is a good deal of higher bush than usual about it, which makes it very difficult to run these fellows down; and the natives are specially troublesome.

Besides which, at present there are two or three of the worst gangs of bush rangers in the colony, somewhere in that country.