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get clear of the police. Anyhow we told her we had come from
Scotland. All right she says if you come down with me and
see my husband I dare say he will take you three boys on. She
never thouht for a moment we was run away sailors. Anyhow away
we went with her away about two miles between the Hills. So she
spoke to a man on the way and told that we was three Scotch
lads, that had just come out from Scotland. So he asked us
what part of Scotland we came from and we told him from
Leith. So this man came from near there himself and was a shep-
herd, and had his sheep in the Hills and the Lady bid him good
Bye and went on with the other two and I stopped behind for
a bit, and told this man the truth that we was run away sailors
and run away from the ship we was apprentices in. And if he
would kindly say nothing and give us any news about the
ships departure as she was bound to sail out from the Wharf
and lay to an anchor in the Gulf waiting for us boys to be
picked up. So I found we had just struck the right man
and he told us to work there for a week or two and he would
give us all the news about either the police or the ship. So away
I went after the rest of the company and arrived at Waterfall Gully
and this German took the three of us on and never asked any
questions But took his wifes word for it. he kept a Market
Garden and we found them very nice people to work for
and agreed with him for 10/- per week and our keep. And
we did not know much about Market Gardening as there was
nothing but Bricks and Mortar where we came from. Anyhow
we got on not so bad. A nyhow next day in came that Scotch
shepherd and told us that the mounted troopers was after us and
Twenty pounds reward our for each of us. Anyhow he says you need
never fear as they will never think of coming down this Gully to look
for you. we knew the the ship would not lay long waiting for us. But
in them days Sailors was very scarce for in 1865 there was not
many Sailors about in pt Adelaide out of a ship and us three being
away would shorten the crew greatly. Anyhow our Scotch Shepherd
arrived a day or two after with the good news that the ship had
Sailed. So the police was Baffled at not finding us as it was a