“It's a wonder then, Billy,” he said, “that your mate didn't come after you and give you a hand to steady the cattle.”
“Well, perhaps it was,” said Billy, “only that there was a bigger wonder than that at the back of it.”
“What was that?”
“My mate never woke up all through it.”
Then the men knocked the ashes out of their pipes and went to bed.
DONE FOR THE DOUBLE
by Knott Gold
Author of “Flogged for a Furlong”, “Won by a Winker”, etc., etc.