They were four and five years old; and the weights were taken as they hung up, clean, in the butcher's shop. '■ "Well, Sam," said my brother, as we finished the round of the camp, " what do you think of them? Not a bad lotl Are they?" "Very sound!" said I. "What are. those bullocks worth now ?" " Six-pound-ten, delivered at the yard ; and heaven send they may stick at it. They have never been up to that before, around these edges. Look there, at that white one: he'll go over a thousand; and isn't he a plum to look at? " The animal referred to was a fouivyear old bollock, with the head of a heifer on him : and a soft white skin; very deep in the girth, and. with a broad, level back. It struck mc that I had seen worse animals in the show-yards of the old country. And there were several others as good as he on the camp. Oxen which average 1,0001b., clean carcase, oif the grass, cannot be a bad sort. Mr Fiuch-Hatton is very emphatic as to their activity. "A bullock, bred and raised in the Bush, though he may be as fat as a pig, is a very different animal from the sleepy creatures that one meet<* on their way to an English market, driven by a couple of small boys and a cur dog. He is aa quick on his legs as a rabbit: and for a few furlongs it takes a good horse to get away from him: acd, moreover, as a rule, he can jump like a deer." If climate and connections change the character of English cattle when exported, the same - modification occurs in the English language. Here we say of a beast, that is dispose- to take the initiative in its dealings with mankind that it is " vicious:" or perhaps that it is " wild "or " mad." Our American cousins—as befits the descendants of the Yea-and-Nay Puritans —modestly describe such an one as " quite cross." It would seem, from "Advance, Australia," that the accepted term there is " rowdy." Here is some thing about rowdy cattle :— The rowdiest cattle as a rule are bullocks, and the quietest of all, In and oat of the yards, are bulls. A cow. 