The hero spends some time in New South Wales, gold-digging, kangaroo-hunting, etc. 'Even when, after a time, Mr Bucknall settles his hero down to some sort of employment at a station, we hear much more of laughing kingfishers and picnic flirtations than of sheep-farming. If Victorian sheep-stations are usually like the stations of "Mannerim" sheep-farming must be a very easy vocation.'