I suppose by your knowing these people you are a drover or a horse-dealer.
Oh yes; when I was a drover was up in London every month.
We have seen a drover asleep on the pavement in summer, with his dog coiled up beside him, and ready to spring upon the first assailant who could be found bold enough to disturb his owner's slumber.
A drover with his sharp clasp-knife in his hand, and a mountain of beef before him, is no bad emblem of one of John Bull's bulwarks.
An oyster may be crossed in love, says the gentle Tilburina--and a drover may be touched on a point of honour, says the Chronicler of the Canongate.
The English drover applied to the bailiff on the property, who was known to him.
With all the merits of a sanguine temper, our young English drover was not without his defects.
He was a topping person in his way, transacted considerable business on his own behalf, and was entrusted by the best farmers in the Highlands, in preference to any other drover in that district.
In the meanwhile Mr. Ireby found some amusement in detaining the northern drover at his ancient hall.
So the calf stayed where it was put, and seemed to be eating all the time, and the drover thought to himself, "It will soon be able to run alone, if it grazes at that rate!
And the drover said, "Most likely it has run away.
A brother of thedrover was about to return on horseback.
Mr. Picton Smith it was who on the same occasion had sentenced the riotous drover to "thirty days without the option of a fine.
Having thus summarily disposed of Gubbins, I turned my artillery against the attendant drover and the policeman.
A few miles below the exit of the stream from the loch, as the extreme dimness of the valley showed that sunset was approaching, we met a drover who had gone up into the wilderness in search of stray black cattle.
The Border cattle-lifter came and went in the twinkling of an eye, and drove the captured flocks and herds away with him at a rate no merely honest drover ever marshalled his sheep and heifers to market.
The man who drove (he scorns, you see, to call him a coachman) was more like a Welsh drover than anything else.
These the head droverdelivered to the buyer, simply remarking, "Many's the time you never cut-out cattle.
This was agreed to, and the drover was sent off to get his meals in the hut before leaving by the coach.
The drover stood by the side of his horse, beneath the acacia trees in the yard.
Perhaps the fever-racked drover and the old camp-horse appealed to him in a way incomprehensible to us.
A Queensland drover once took a big mob from the Gulf right down through New South Wales, selling various lots as he went.
In driving cattle the drover should have no dog, which will only annoy them.
Having the cattle prepared for travel, the drover takes the road very slowly for the first two days, not exceeding seven or eight miles a day.
He was beginning to wonder what could have delayed them, for the fords were good and this particular section was one where no drover cared to linger.
Immediately thereafter the Mexicans whom the drover had employed as vaqueros and guides deserted him; the people of the hamlet closed their houses against the trio of gringos.
Every shrieking, dancing drover As the canines topple over Yells applause to Grip or Rover, "Give him 'Dandaloo'!
The drover dismissed the subject and turned to Thursday.
Billie delivered the orders of the drover to the foreman as they passed on their way to the remuda.
The drover looked at his new employee with a question in his shrewd eyes.
At sight of Warren and his companion the face of the drover set.
The droverspent the next day cutting out the animals that did not belong to him.
I reckon we'll throw into the trail again tomorrow, Joe," the drover told Yankie.
Evidently the drover did not know this, since he was moving his cattle directly toward the Indian camp.
In the face of the big drovercould be read a grim elation.
The drover said he'd heard it also, but he didn't take much interest in such things, though he wasn't any Republican.
Then having sold my horse, saddle and bridle to the drover in charge, I found the railway station, purchased a ticket for Sydney, and placing myself on board the train was next day landed safe and sound in the capital.
Frey was summoned on this occasion also, and under his treatment the much dejected old drover was restored, and afterward took many droves of cattle over the road to Baltimore.
In 1834 John Waters, a cattle droverof Ohio, fell sick at Frazer's tavern, in Somerfield, and languished for many weeks.
William Hunsucker was a hog drover from Greene county, Pennsylvania, and the boys called him "Suboy Bill.
She grew strong again, went with Sally Drover and the other girls on Sunday excursions to the country, applied herself to her embroidery with restless zeal for days, only to have it drop from her nerveless fingers.
Justice to Miss Drovercannot be done in these pages.
He could not rid his mind of the thought that his friend the drover was going to defraud him of his share in the gold-mine.
For a moment the drover looked at the boy with keen eyes from which nothing could be hidden.
Drover Stobart waiting for them in Oodnadatta, and here they were in Hergott Springs, and no chance of getting out of it for a month or two.
The droverhad succeeded in making a friend of the man with the mutilated left hand, but had not been able to overcome the hatred of the most influential man in the tribe.
With clenched fists and blazing eyes he stood between the drover and the bound man.
For a moment he faced the white man, swaying unsteadily, then he turned and went away to his wurley, leaving the drover victor on the field where he had so nearly met his death.
The best droverthat ever crossed a horse in this country.
Sax caught up with the drover and rode neck and neck with him on the wing of the cattle for some time before the man turned his head.
As a proof of this, the last time they had met, Pat had told the drover about a gold-mine he knew of in the Musgrave Ranges.
It was a characteristic note, for the drover never wrote long letters, but the shakiness of the writing, and the mysterious way in which it had been delivered, gave Sax a feeling of great uneasiness.
The drover stood looking down at the grotesquely painted figure huddled up on the ground at his feet.
The drover saddled his horse and went away with Yarloo, while the two white boys gave the other stockmen their breakfast, wondering what had taken Mick off in such a hurry.
The boys expected their drover friend to be as excited as they were, but he had seen cattle yarded so many hundreds of times that he took things very coolly.
It came on unheeding, with glazed eyes and spent senses, and bumped into the drover as if the hour had been pitch-dark midnight instead of a summer afternoon.
Just as the coach was about to start a drover came out of the bar of the hotel, wiping his lips with the back of his hand.
The drover looked helplessly out over the stretch of plain.
The drover takes away the cow, an' gies the Cameronian his twanty pund Scots.
Look, if you please, at the mud-stained cavalryman who has lived his days and his nights in the saddle; or the cattle drover who has never had any home but this pigskin seat, and mark you what a part of the horse he is.
The stranger drover followed the meagre, shirt-clad figure with shifty eyes; then he buried his face in his mug.
A gran' worker he'll be," called the drover after him.
Take him or leave him," ordered thedrover truculently, still gazing out of the window.
Glad of company, the pig-drover received Twm’s information that he was also going to the same town with a hearty shake of the hand and a welcome to become his fellow traveller.
