We will stop off there and visit the stockyards, and collect a few squeals for souvenirs.

" "A nasty thing that," said Mr. Wood, vigorously; "and a man that builds up a flock from a stockyard often finds it out to his cost.

Therefore he wrote to strangers on a purely business basisto amazing types lately emerged from the submerged, bulging with coal money, steel money, copper money, wheat money, stockyard moneytypes that galloped for Fifth Avenue to build town houses; that shook their long cars and frisked into the country and built "cottages."

No more shall we muster the river for fats, Or spiel on the Fifteen-mile plain, Or rip through the scrub by the light of the moon, Or see the old stockyard again.

The saddle was hung on the stockyard rail, And the poor old horse stood whisking his tail, For there never was seen such a regular screw As Wallabi Joe, of Bunnagaroo; Whilst the shearers all said, as they say, of course, That Wallabi Joe’s a fine lump of a horse; But the stockmen said, as they laughed aside, He’d barely do for a Sunday’s ride.

The sun peers o’er you wooded ridge and thro’ the forest dense, Its golden edge o’er the mountain ledge looks down on the stockyard fence, Looks down, looks down, looks down on the stockyard fence; And dark creeks rush thro’ the tangled brush, when their shuddering shadows throng Until they chime in the rude rough rhyme of the wild goburra’s song.

The sun peers o’er you wooded ridge and thro’ the forest dense, Its golden edge o’er the mountain ledge looks down on the stockyard fence, Looks down, looks down, looks down on the stockyard fence; And dark creeks rush thro’ the tangled brush, when their shuddering shadows throng Until they chime in the rude rough rhyme of the wild goburra’s song.

The stockyard’s broken down, and the woolshed’s tumbling in; I’ve written to the mortgagees in vain; My wool it is all damaged and it is not worth a pin, And I’ve lost that little freehold on the plain.

Chorus: The stockyard’s broken down, &c. I built myself a mansion, and chose myself a wife; Of her I have no reason to complain; For I thought I had sufficient to last me all my life,

Chorus: The stockyard’s broken down, &c.

Chorus: The stockyard’s broken down, &c. THE WALLABY BRIGADE

In the stockyard he met her coming up from the sheepfold, carrying a young lamb in her arms.

Don't pull through a stockyard without first closing the damper tight.

The stockyards at Chicago make a city.

Through that window there came a balmy softness made up of Lake Michigan zephyr, and stockyards smell, and distant budding things.

The public cares little, and has not troubled to learn much about the conditions of the workers, without whom there could be no stockyards and no meat-packing industry.

It passed out of existence after the stockyards' strike of 1904, being inevitably involved in the defeat of the men, and going down with them to disaster.

In Chicago it was in the stockyards district that garbage was dumped for many years; garbage, the product of other wards, that the residents of those other wards insisted be removed from their back-doors.

How much of the high infant death-rate among stockyards families has been due to the garbage exposed and decaying, so carefully brought there, from the fine residential districts?

That's the trouble with you poor little shut-ins; you decide the country hasn't any ideals because someone runs a stockyard out in Chicago or a foundry in Pittsburgh.

It was when he had gathered the first train load of big, rollicky steers for market and was watching Jim Bleeker close the stockyard gate on the tail of the herd at Tower, the nearest shipping point, that the disagreeable element came in the person of Dill and the news he bore.

He rode up to where Billy, just inside the wing of the stockyards, was sitting slouched over with one foot out of the stirrup, making a cigarette.

But the staplelike the modern stockyard or exchangetended to monopoly and was abolished for this reason.

We led him a block and a half through the little town, during which there was a pointed argument between Wall and a "Z" man whether the city scales or the stockyards arch gate would be the best place to hang him.

The Berlin stockyards slaughtered over 25,000 pigs weekly before August, 1914.