Well, just let me find out where our friend's stockyard is situated in the Ranges up yonder, and I think I'll be able to tell you.
An hour later we discovered, cunningly hidden in a lonely gulley, a big stockyard in which our lost cattle were still penned up.
Harry is getting in some young beasts at the stockyard hut, and Cecil Mayford is coming over to see if any of theirs are among them; may I go out and meet him?
Mine make a light flying doe along a stockyard this morning; close by, along a fent, you see!
We'll be up round the old stockyard after breakfast to-morrow.
One day, it so happened that every one was out but Cecil and Alice; and Alice, who had been listening to the noises at the stockyard a long while, suddenly proposed to go there.
The Dandy being back at the Bitter Springs superintending the carting of new posts for the stockyard there, the missus was left in the care of Johnny and Cheon.
Nothing daunted or disheartened him; and in those hours spent on the stockyard fence, in the shade of a spreading tree, I learnt to know the Quiet Stockman for the man he was.
But when I mounted the stockyard fence one morning, to see the breaking-in of the colts, he looked as though he "drew the line" at that too.
Investigation after investigation has been made of the methods of the stockyard firms, but thus far the law has not laid its hands successfully upon them.
For a time the railroads east of the stockyard cities of Kansas City and Chicago divided up pro rata the dressed beef traffic.
When they arrived at the stockyard Ticktock was on one side of the herd, the dog on the other, and Jim walked behind.
When there was an unusually large amount of stock to be sold, part of it was kept at the stockyard and driven over as required.
Near the stockyard a cloud of dust hovered, through which might be seen dimly the forms of Jim, Wally and O'Toole--all engaged in the engrossing pursuit of inducing three poddy calves to enter the yard.
Below him, against the stockyard fence, a black shadow stood and whinnied faintly.
John Bolland, lumbering out of the stockyardat tea-time, encountered Dr.
John Bolland, protected by an oilskin coat, crossed the road between the stockyard and the White House about eight o'clock.
Fortunately the stockyard gates were open wide, and Dennis came up at a gallop in time to head the herd off from a charge across the prairie, while a second man and I turned their opposite wing.
Then there was a great roar of laughter from loungers and stockyard hands as the dust swept up towards heaven and the drove thundered through the opening.
Round a jutting point of timber a small drove of twenty or thirty horses came at a headlong gallop in a cloud of dust, and made straight for the stockyard in the direct track for which Jack's bedroom was situated.
At anystockyard or station passed Kites were seen .
A stockyard under six feet high will be leaped by some of these kangaroos (as we term them) with the most perfect ease, and it requires to be as stout as it is high to resist their rushes against it.
Now to thestockyard crowds the mob; 'Twill soon be milking time.
He was in the act of leaving the stockyard when I encountered him, and I suppose he must have seen from my face that I had news for him--for, when he had shaken hands with me, he stepped back to the rails and leaned against them.
At the rear was another strip of garden with some fine orange and loquot trees, and then, on the other side of the stockyard rails, the thick scrub running up the hillside and extending for miles into the back country.
Having now got our habitation and our stockyard completed, and it being well on in the wet season, with the newly-sown grass springing green over the charred surface of the clearing, obviously it was time to introduce stock.
In order to effect this they are transferred to a stockyard on the beach.
We'd had a couple of knockabouts to help with the cooking and stockyard work.
We'd all start and go a bit of the way with her next day--to the old stockyard or a bit farther; she could ride from there, and take the horse back with her and keep him if she liked.
But we never expected to have to record the erecting of a substantial stockyard and the carrying off and disposing of a whole herd, estimated at a thousand or eleven hundred head, chiefly the property of one proprietor.
We followed that till we came to a tumble-down slab hut with a stockyard beside it.
The mare, like some women when they get their monkey up, was clean out of her senses, and I don't believe anything could have held her under a hide rope with a turn round a stockyard post.
Before we got to the stockyard she rode over to Jim and cheered him up as much as she could about Jeanie.
The making of a stockyard at the back of Momberah was not the thing honest men would do.
He was furiously angry, would hear neither reason nor explanation, when the O’Hara stockyardmystery was unveiled.
I knew that cattle were brought to the stockyard late, and taken away early.
In a stockyard near the claim, branding as well as concealment of stolen cattle had been carried on.
No more shall we muster the river for fats, Or spiel on the Fifteen-mile plain, Or rip through the scrub by the light of the moon, Or see the old stockyard again.
The cattle were gathered in a valley up the river, sorted out from some belonging to Mr. Merwell and Mr. Hooper, and then driven off to a stockyard along the railroad line.
Our method would be to organize all the workers in a plant, as a branch of the Stockyard Workers' Industrial Union.
The various branches would combine into district organizations if necessary, and all of them together would form the Stockyard Workers' Industrial Union as part of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Passing beyond the bounds of settlement, which had now extended 300 miles to the north of Sydney, he fixed his headquarters and erected a stockyard for stolen cattle on the further side of the Liverpool Plains.
The terra incognita now was entered upon, and the first object that drew the attention of the explorers was the old stockyard of the bushranger, which, doubtless, was too near a neighbour of Brown's cattle station.
The cart returned with some fine timber which was soon placed on the saw-pit; meanwhile a stockyardfor the cattle was erected on the higher ground.
We next reached a very large stockyard which the natives said had belonged to George The Barber, meaning The Bushranger.
The party continued towards that portion of the Namoi at which we first arrived on advancing into those desolate regions, and we passed our old encampment beside The Barber's stockyard near Tangulda.
This difficulty suggested the plan which I on subsequent occasions adopted, of confining these animals at night, within a temporary stockyard of ropes tied between trees.
I hastened towards the dwelling of these white men, and the symmetrical appearance of theirstockyard fence, when it first caught my eye, so long accustomed to the wavy lines of simple nature, looked quite charming as a work of art.
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