Those poor beggars of convicts have a dreadful hard time of it, and I don't think there are many settlers who would hand over any man who had escaped, and taken to the bush, even if he had occasionally bailed up a waggoner or so.

We know what a flogging the poor wretch would get and, as long as it's only an occasional robbery, to keep themselves from starving, we don't feel any great animosity against them.

It's different, altogether, when they take to murder.

Then, of course, they must be hunted down like wild beasts.
"And now I vote that we have a nap.

My pipe's out, and I suppose we shall be on the tramp again, as soon as it is dark.".