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When Hugh came home one day with his face, as usual, full of trouble,

Mary began to laugh hih, which is it to-day--the Doyles or the Donohoes?

Have they been stealing sheep or breaking gates?"

"Oh, it's all very well for you to laugh," he said; "you don't

understand So up the river went into the stud paddock

yesterday to cut down a tree for a bee's nest, and left the tree

burning; rass--in a blaze Then they drove their dray against the gate,

knocking it sideways, and a lot of the stud sheep got out into the

other paddock, and I'll have to be off at day-break to-et 'em back"

"Why don't you suo and break their gates, and cut down their trees?" she said, with

a cheerful ignorance of details

"I daren't--simply daren't If I surass but there'd be fires I'd never have fat sheep but

there'd be dogs aing to the station flew over one of their selections they'd

summon me for trespass There's no end to the injury a spiteful

neighbour can do you in this sort of country And your father would