But, yourself being all in a sweat and your horse excited, straight shooting was difficult to accomplish.

We worked on a system; on finding a band, one man would do the running for six or eight miles, then another would relieve him, and so on, the idea being to get outside of them and so gradually round them in to the grazing herd.

We had special horses kept and used for this purpose, fast and long-winded, as the pace had to be great and one must be utterly regardless of dog and badger holes, etc.

This kind of work we kept up for a couple of weeks, some days being successful, some days getting a run but securing nothing.

We made a satisfactory gathering of all the gentler and more tractable mares, but some of the wilder ones we could not hold.