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be explained later, then, unable on the flat to escape further, rose from 

 below in the form of an alluvium of dirty water no stronger than weak 

 tea. 1 



Sufficient now has been said of the soils of the run and their ancient 

 order of deposition. If the reader has grasped the fact that all steep 

 land is good and that all flat land is bad, he knows everything that need 

 be known. 



1 Eiding through some such bit of country with a stock and station agent, he remarked of 

 the deep green tutu-covered slopes, wishing presumably to say something pleasant : " That 



does not look so very bad, but this !" Without consideration I replied : "You might not 



think so, but this is really better." I yet recollect his sour, sick face as he turned in his 

 saddle and looked at me. As I say, he was a stock and station agent inured from childhood 

 to chicanery, yet he was fairly nauseated, not of course at the lie as he necessarily accounted 

 it, but at its ineptitude, inadequacy, futility, the waste and uselessness of such a foolish 

 falsehood. 



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