There is no doubt he was one of the best shearers I′d ever picked up for when I used to rouseabout. But he was a bloody mollydooker—a left-hander—and it was difficult to pick up his fleece when he finished shearing his sheep.

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What a blowzed condition you are in, child ! exclaimed Mrs. Mustley, as Kate came running in, one morning, to tell her uncle, with great glee, that she had spied a blackbird's nest in the old thorn-tree on the lawn, low enough for her, when Matty lifted her up, to peep in and see three young ones huddling together in the nest, to keep each other warm.