PCrSSELLAWA RESTHOUSE, 
have little or no idea of the value of this character. 
If it is once established, and justly established, you 
can always, when you want, or require, get credit 
anywhere, without the least hesitation ; correct and 
punctual payments of yoiu* little accounts will in 
course of time become a habit, and as you have have 
been co- rect and methodical in small matters you will, 
as a matter of course, be so also in more important 
ones, and thus it may eventually result, that your 
habits of punctuality in pecuniary matters will 
lead to your being easily able to obtain credit 
and assistance, when you ultimately “ invest in 
cofifee.” “He’s never in debt, and always pays.”^ 
Are there any of our readers, who are in debt, 
and never pay, if they can shirk payment ? Give it up 
it won’t do, it won’t pay. We have proved it frequently 
in our life experience, or rather have seen it proved 
in others, that it is one of the fixed certainties of this 
uncertain life, that it does not pay, not to pay. Being 
impressed with these sentiments in our early years, 
they were probably carried somewhat to excess, in 
going without our dinner rather than get into debt 
for it. 
We strolled out to look at the pony. He had 
no thought of debt or paying for his dinner ; there 
he stood looking as comfortable as could be, he had fin- 
ished all the left grass in the rack ; and had collected 
with his fore-feet all the dry paddy straw litter and had 
eaten that up too ! There he stood swollen out like a 
drum, with not the shadow of a thought about payment or 
who to pay. We sighed as we looked at his happy 
frame of mind, and went into the resthouse verandah, 
and sat down. “ Boy,” we say, “ how is it there is 
nobody in the resthouse ? ” “ Plenty gentlemen in Mr. 
and Mrs. Carruthers’ parlour,” was the reply^ The 
resthouse was then kept by Mr. Carruthers and his 
wife, who occupied private premises for themselves 
close to the kitchen and servants’ rooms on the left 
of the resthouse, and it used to be quite the custom 
in this as in other resthouses, for travellers, if, or even 
whether or no, there was no company in the public 
room, to step into the landlord’s rooms, and have a 
“ crack.’’ On asking who the gentlemen are, we are told 
L , of the Peacock Hill,..R , and figliting C 
of Dimbula. This latter gentleman received his sur- 
name from his always settling every argument or 
dispute that seemed to go against him, byr offering, 
frequently insisting upon, fighting his opponent who 
had the best of the argument, until few argued with 
him, and he had his own way in everything in so 
far as talking, boasting, and bragging would carry him, 
