and I was just in the way of going for something to eat, when I caught sight of another dray laden with boxes and crated affairs which I recognised as scientific apparatus.

I am a dray-horse if I was not ashamed of the indigested, dirty lumber, as I toppled 'em out of the cart, and blessed Becky that came with 'em for her having an unstuffed brain with such rubbish.

To see me dressed out with my team and my dray too, Wid a whip like a flail and such gaiters, Ohone!

THE OLD BULLOCK DRAY

I’ll be bound you won’t get Such a chance another day, So come and take possession Of my old bullock dray.

They say there’s no delay To get an off-sider For the old bullock dray.

And I wonder what the devil Jack Robertson would say If he saw us promenading Round the old bullock dray.

And your old bullock dray.”

He drove me out in a bullock dray, and his piggery met my view.

THE EUMERELLA SHORE There’s a happy little valley on the Eumerella shore, Where I’ve lingered many happy hours away, On my little free selection I have acres by the score, Where I unyoke the bullocks from the dray.

Many of its streets are so crowded with omnibuses, wagons, dray-carts, &c., that it is almost Impossible for a pedestrian to cross them.

In addition there were twelve men, eleven horses, one spring-cart, three bullock-drays, thirty bullocks, one horse-dray, two hundred sheep, four kangaroo dogs, and two sheep dogs.

Preparations had been made for his journey by filling a bullock skin with water, and sending a dray with it as far as possible.

Mr. Harris, the mate, was doing the final work of getting the steamer ready to sail, and was preparing to cast off the lines, when a dray, loaded with boxes, pulled up alongside the vessel.

he roared to the driver of the dray.

" "You've got a house, and a good horse and dray," replied Mr. Stevens, who was well posted in the man's pecuniary resources.

"If you expect me to get you out of this scrape, you must sell or mortgage your house, and dispose of your horse and dray.

The slaves were more numerous than the free also in the semi-domestic employments of coachmen and porters, and among the dray-men and the coopers and the unskilled laborers in addition.

Now school was over for another summer and Trimble Cushman's dray could be driven at a good wageby a boy overnight become a man.

Except in two cases: Even Anna was aware that the "Continentals," in tasseled top-boots, were of earlier times, although they had changed their buff knee-breeches and three-cornered hats for a smart uniform of blue and gray; while these red-and-blue-flannel Zouaves, drawing swarms of boys as dray-loads of sugar-hogsheads drew flies, were as modern as 1861 itself.

"Want a tow rope for that old stone dray of yours?"

When I asked him about the hunchback he said he knew right where he was; but there was no hurry, and tried to get up a wrestling match between me and a man twice my size who made a specialty of hauling salt, and bragged that he could take a barrel of it by the chimes, and lift it into his dray.

She had consulted her lord and they were willing to lend their big dray horse if they could all join our party.

No, one, and three-quarters of the next, for when within a score of yards of the black wall he jammed down the brakes, and the iron mass ground and shook as though it would rend itself to atoms, but it stopped with its dasher and front wheels wedged in between a car and a dray.

Stage, Dray, and Steamboat.