186 THE PASTORAL AGE IN AUSTRALASIA 



And after both cattle and sheep have become com- 

 paratively stationary, individuals may still be restless. 



" He's shearing here and fencing there, a kind of waif and stray, 

 He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh." 



Or " the red marauder," Drought, drives the swagman 

 " out back." He begs his way " on the parched Paroo 

 and the Warrego tracks," but the tramp " never got 

 hands in wool, though he tramped for a year out back." 

 He dies at last in the scrub. 



