about 1 a.m.
If a Goulburn man has friends at Yass , he says they are up the country . If a Yass man has friends at Young , he says they are up the country , and so on . Caddagat is `` up the country '' . Bound thither on the second Wednesday in August 1896 , I bought a ticket at the Goulburn railway station , and at some time about 1 a.m. took my seat in a second class carriage of the mail-train on its way to Melbourne . I had three or four hours to travel in this train when I would have to change to a branch line for two hours longer . I was the only one from Goulburn in that carriage ; all the other passengers had been in some time and were asleep . One or two opened their eyes strugglingly , stared glumly at the intruder , and then went to sleep again .