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Now we must follow for a time the adventures of Charlie Gordon and the / new chum, whom we left just starting out for ‘far back', Charlie to / take over a cattle-station for Old Man Grant, and Carew to search for / Patrick Henry Considine. After a short sea-journey they took train to a / dusty back-blocks township, where Gordon picked up one of the many / outfits which he had scattered over the country, and which in this case / consisted of a vehicle, a dozen or so of horses, and a black boy named / Frying Pan.
They drove four horses in a low, American-made buggy, and travelled / about fifty miles a day. Frying Pan was invaluable. He seemed to have a / natural affinity for horses. He could catch them anywhere, and track / them if they got lost. Carew tried to talk to him, but could get little / out of him, for he knew only the pidgin English, which is in use in / those parts, and said "No more" to nearly every question. He rode along / behind the loose horses, apparently quite satisfied with his own / company. Every now and then he came alongside the vehicle, and said / "Terbacker." Charlie threw him a stick of the blackest, rankest tobacco / known to the trade, and off he went again.