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Noe must follow for a time the adventures of Charlie Gordon

and the new chu out for 'far back',

Charlie to take over a cattle-station for Old Man Grant, and Carew

to search for Patrick Henry Considine After a short sea-journey

they took train to a dusty back-blocks township, where Gordon

picked up one of the many outfits which he had scattered over the

country, and which in this case consisted of a vehicle, a dozen or

so of horses, and a black boy na Pan

Thy drove four horses in a low, Ay, and travelled

about fiftyPan was invaluable He seemed to

have a natural affinity for horses He could catch theot lost Carew tried to talk to hiet little out of hilish,

which is in use in those parts, and said "Nobehind the loose horses, apparently quite

satisfied with his own coside

the vehicle, and said "Terbacker" Charlie threw him a stick of

the blackest, rankest tobacco known to the trade, and off he went

again

Once they saw hie his ar beast;

this he carried for severalthe body swing at the end of the long neck--a

proceeding which