are built for a short distance at right angles or otherwise, thus—
The object is to avoid the cost and trouble of a gate, while preventing the passage of sheep from one paddock to another. E.g., sheep feeding along the fence in the direction of the arrows above, and reaching the barrier, would be turned back into the centre of their own paddock. The lane is narrow—hence the need of clever steering (verse 26).
Stanza 27. ‘The change.’ The end of a coach-stage, where horses are changed.
21. ON THE BOUNDARY, p. 93.
Stanza 5. ‘The murmuring belar.’ The belar or bull-oak (casuarina glauca) is a ragged-looking tree, averaging 30 or 40 feet in height. Found all over eastern Australia. It resembles rather a pine than an oak, and the feathery foliage sways and murmurs as a pine's. The Linnaean name is derived from the likeness of this foliage to the drooping plumes of a cassowary.
24. JACK CORRIGAN, p. 106.
This ballad, like most by Boake, is founded on fact. ‘Locker's hill,’ ‘the Flat Rock,’ etc., are landmarks well known in the district around Rosedale station, previously referred to.
