Our boss was a bit of a ter ror, too, and sacked the black sbeep amongst us right and left for the first two weeks. The managers give ns poor shearers a very bad name, and, indeed, not without cause in a number -yf-eases. A lot of really had -charac ters get together at nearly everv shed ;and gambling goes on ni lit and day. •I have se»-n as much as a hundred tpr-unds change hands in a very shoit time at a game ca’led “ heading them.” This is supposed to be a game of chance, but it -is often made otherwise by the use of double headed crins called “nobs;” a coin wi hj two tails is called “ a grev.” They are made by filing down two coins and joining them togidher Num bers of them are manufactured by the old hands ; in fact, it is quite a trade with some of them, as it inquires a • certain amount of skill and a large emount of roguery combined to turn them out well. Next to the nrm over the board, the storekeeper has, I think, the hardest times o' it, during a shearing season. Shearers are proverbially hard to deal with, and added to that they look up on a storekeeper as a kind of inferior animal. His requirements to make a success are many; hoshoulcl he a second -Job for patience, and on occasion should be able to lie freely with a good conscience. T have seen many of them grind their teeth when a shearer would keep them waiting half an hour at a stretch trying a new pair of shears •or taking stock of a tew Turkey stone. They will open and shut a -pair of shears 50 times, turn them over, and look clown the ed:e as many more, then add insult to injury by trying to beat down the price. The choice of a stone is equally heart-rend ing; the woivying that a respectable Turkey stone gets at the hands of a shearec before he thinks of buying it is awful to contemplate. They si ait by rubbing a shilling up and down its surface five or six limes to see how hard it is, then it gets a lick, and an application of the business side of the shearer’s front teeth to try it still fur ther. 