college students seeking to turn to account a few weeks' vacation; and nondescripts, flotsam and jetsam of many callings, and some of none. There is Bill Gamble who first knew, Silverbourne forty years ago, when it took a week to get there; Jim Hanlon, last year's ringer; Charlie Downs, runner-up, local product and pride of the district; and little Jimmy Kelly, the diminutive seventeen year old fleecy, back for his second season. For days now sheep have been on the move; the furthest and most inaccessible corners of the run have been combed, and the sheep worked to the lower levels. To-day brings the climax to preparatory activities, for everything must be in readiness for to-morrow. From early morning flocks of sheep, like rolling white clouds, have been converging on the yards. Through drafting pens and races to the urge of shouting and the barking of tireless dogs, two thousand sheep are under cover of that big shed by nightfall, and preparations are complete.