y 22, p. 34, col. 2:

"A mob of sheep has been sold at Belfast at 1s. 10d. per
head."

1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `A Colonial Reformer,' p. 83

"The army of sheep--about thirty thousand in fifteen flocks--
at length reached the valley before dark, and the overseer,
pointing to a flock of two thousand, more or less, said,
`There's your mob.'"

Of <i>Horses</i>--

1865. Lady Barker, `Station Life in New Zealand,' p. 27:

"All the animals to make friends with, mobs of horses to look
at."

1879. W. J. Barry, `Up and Down,' p. 197:

"I purchased a mob of horses for the Dunstan market."

1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 111:

"The stockman came suddenly on a mob of nearly thirty horses,
feeding up a pleasant valley."

Of <i>Kangaroos</i>--

1846. G. H. Haydon, `Five Years in Australia Felix,' p. 59:

"The `old men' are always the largest and strongest in the
flock, or in colonial language `mob.'"

1864. `Once a Week,' Dec. 31, p. 45, `The Bulla Bulla
Bunyip':

"About a mile outside the town a four-rail fence skirted the
rough track we followed. It enclosed a lucerne paddock.
Over the grey rails, as we approached, came bounding a mob
of kangaroos, headed by a gigantic perfectly white `old man,'
which glimmered ghostly in the moonlight."

Of <i>Ducks</i>--

1885. H. Finch-Hatton, `Advance Australia, p. 99:

"They [the ducks] all came in twos and threes, and small mobs."

Of <i>Clothes</i>--

1844. `Port Phillip Patriot,' July 22, p. 2, col. 6:

"They buttoned up in front; the only suit to the mob which
did so."

Of <i>Books</i>--

1892. Gilbert Parker, `Round the Compass in Australia,' p. 72:

"If it was in your mob of books, give this copy to somebody
that would appreciate it."

<i>More generally</i>--

1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. ii. p. 20:

"A number of cattle together is here usually termed a `mob,'
and truly their riotous and unruly demeanour renders the
designation far from inapt; but I was very much amused at
first, to hear people gravely talking of `a mob of sheep,'
or `a mob of <i>lambs</i>,' and it was some time ere I became
accustomed to the novel use of the word. Now, the common
announcements that `the cuckoo hen has brought out a rare mob
of chickens,' or that `there's a great mob of quail in the big
paddock,' are to me fraught with no alarming anticipations."

1853. H. Berkeley Jones, `Adventures in Australia,' p. 114: