TR Soe ees eS 
MURRUMBIDGEE, LOWER LACHLAN, AND LOWER DARLING. 57 
pursuit, horses, accoutrements and all, taking all sorts of care during 
the passage not to allow their ammunition to get wet. 
ride of about a dozen miles brought them to the camp they 
were in search of, and just as they were about to gallop into it one 
of the troopers descried the renegade creeping away through the 
tbushes ; pursuit was soon given by the whole troop, which, 
when the renegade perceived, he stood up from his crouching posi- 
tion and ran as only an aboriginal can run when dear life is the 
guerdon, but his running, swift as it was on this occasion, availed 
him but little, as the foremost trooper even although going at full 
gallop, took aim across his bridle arm, and so sent a bullet crash- 
ing through the skull of the dastardly savage. As he reeled to the 
earth the troop gave one shout of savage triumph as they rushed 
up pell mell to their now prostrate foe, where they threw themselves 
from their horses in a crowd, and with flashing sabres smote the 
carcass of the wily murderer until it was reduced to pieces not larger 
than a palm’s breadth, deeming that proceeding—butchery though it 
was—but a fitting caution to all t £ other people’s kidney fat. 
When a trial for murder has resulted in the condemnation of 
‘ € as makes him almost forget the painful trial through which 
ie has so successfully passed. 
_ Meanwhile the spectators have all dispersed by twos and threes 
eir usual avocations, commenting noisily upon the bravery 
the expertness displayed by him who had so successfully undergone 
Supreme trial. 
