Billy was always making jokes, and Jake was jolly too in a quiet kind of way.

Sometimes we could all ride abreast, and sometimes we had to go in single file, and our horses seemed to enjoy it as much as we did.

Brownie loved company, so it was a treat for him as well as for me.

The place we were going to was a piece of high land that lay at the top of the valley above the Higsons' block.

There were generally plenty of berries up there, and we thought they'd just be ripe.