Crossword-Solution: SOLONG 6 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Capertee Station (old time, “Capertee Camp”—a teamster’s camp) was the last station before the first washout, and there the railway line and the old road parted company for the last time before reaching Solong—the one to run round by the ends of the western spurs that spread fanlike, and the other to go through and over, the rough country.

However, while yarning with some old residents at Solong, I mentioned the Brassingtons, and picked up a few first links in the story.

The railway wasn’t thought of in those days, or if it was, no Brassington could have dreamed that the line could have been brought to Solong in any other direction than through the property of the “Big Brassingtons,” as they were called.

All the willow-fringed rivers and the sunny hills of Solong flashed before me at the sight of the name of that street.

Being an old man, Johnson’s memory for the long ago was better than mine, and I picked up links; and, in return, I told him what Solong was like now, and how some men he knew, who were going up, had gone down, and others, who were going to the dogs in his time, had gone up—and we philosophized.