94 FIELD AND FERN. 



from the first man we met in the outskirts of Torres. 

 His Shakesperean annotations were on this wise : 

 " It's just a sort of eminence : all firs and plough now : 

 you paid a toll near it ;" and again : " Pm thinking 

 it's just a mile Wast from Brodie Station. 3 ' 



