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One of the passengers was an old drover, whose talking apparatus was set going by the scenes around Wodonga and Albury, and for a long stretch he entertained us with reminiscences of the overland.
"In my 25 years' experience on the overland, " he said, 'I've had to do with a good many kinds of marketable stock, an' there's no two kinds that can be managed an' drove the same way. If I was asked which was the worst and which was the best to travel with, I'd say pigs an' mules.