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"And some are sulky, while some will plunge / [So ho! Steady! Stand still, you! ] / Some you must gentle, and some you must lunge. / [There! There! Who wants to kill you? ] / Some -- there are losses in every trade -- / Will break their hearts ere bitted and made, / Will fight like fiends as the rope cuts hard, / And die dumb-mad in the breaking-yard. " / Toolungala Stockyard Chorus.
To rear a boy under what parents call the "sheltered life system" is, if the boy must go into the world and fend for himself, not wise. Unless he be one in a thousand he has certainly to pass through many unnecessary troubles; and may, possibly, come to extreme grief simply from ignorance of the proper proportions of things.