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AN AUSTRALIAN ROUGHRIDING CONTEST
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initiated. But they will not only keep with the outlaws, but outpace and out-general them; wheeling them at critical places, racing ahead and rounding them up; eventually, with mingled force and diplomacy, hustling them across a country without track, road, or apparently natural features, till dead-beat and defeated they are landed in the high, secure stock-yard, from which some of their number at least will never emerge alive.