6 One lad looking after cattle and horses and milching the cows and bringing the bullocks in in the mornings and a cook McRae's sister is still stoping at the out station but she is going away and I am glade of it as she was expensive and for no earthly use at preasant as her brother stays here we have no sheep on the run so the out station was no use. There is no bush work going on for us. I am hard at work planting blue gums under the hill behind the house in the padock I fenced myself last year. I have planted 450 within this last fortnight and I had 180 planted before they are all doing very well. I am determined to make a bush so as to be independent in a