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Born in a bush town, in the interior of New South Wales, he had turned to the bush and to the wide, open, grassy plains, as an infant would have turned to its mother in its distress; and the bush and the plains and the grey mountain ranges had taken him to their bosoms; and the silent, reserved boy became the resolute, hardy bushman, stock-rider, and then miner a man fit and ready to meet the emergencies of his rough life.
But do you know what I did the last time I was on leave and had a few rounds over my home course ?" But the return of the General prevented my knowing the golf exploit he was going to tell me. The colonel called me for further instructions. "The rd Brigade are taking over our guns to-morrow morning at 6.30," he said. I'll keep young Bushman with me, and my groom with our horses.
The big bushman from Gippsland at a neighbouring coffee stall praise heaven for that institution gives them a drink of the warm stuff. And I verily believe that at that moment they emerge for the first time out of a frightful dream. For they are the men who have been through the Trommelfeuer. Strong men arrive from that experience shaking like leaves in the wind.
There are those who buy their right to citizenship in the commonwealth of bookmen, but this bushman was free-born, and the sign of the free-born is, that without critics to aid him, or the training of a University, he knows the difference between books which are so much printed stuff and a good book which is "the Precious life-blood of a Master Spirit."
After he disappeared in the forest this hunter heard a long, shrill laugh and words that sounded like 'Podavi." "Podavi Poor Davy!" ejaculated Knowlton. "That's he, sure enough! Then he's near his own town now he won't go far with a bad foot. We'd better move as soon as we can. Ask about an escort." Once more the bushman conversed with Monitaya. The ruler's smile disappeared.
Presently suddenly, it seemed to our drowsy senses two of the shearers and the bagman commenced arguing with drunken gravity and precision about politics, even while a third bushman was approaching the climax of an out-back yarn of many adjectives, of which he himself was the hero. The scraps of conversation that we caught were somewhat as follow. We leave out most of the adjectives.
The fiendish yells of the dogs, the unpleasant situation in which he was placed, and the uncertainty of the time he was to endure it, were well-nigh driving him distracted; when just then the wild honden appeared to be beating a retreat, the only one remaining being that in the pit with Congo. What was driving them away? Could assistance be at hand? Breathlessly the Bushman stood listening.
Perhaps it's Nature's protest against your axiom that man's chief business is dollar-making. Still, I'm admitting that this is a blamed curious place for Nasmyth to figure on killing a wapiti in. Say, are you going to sleep here to-night, Derrick?" It was very evident that none of the big wapiti elks, as the Bushman incorrectly calls them could have reached that spot, but Nasmyth laughed.
If any trouble comes it will be from the other fellows. We'll leave here to-morrow morning." Lourenço translated the promise into Mayoruna. But the chief seemed not to hear. His eyes had narrowed and were fixed on the face of Tim, who still lay on his back and was giving no attention to what went on. Following his look, the bushman gazed critically at the red-haired man.
She had been driven to conclude that the faculty for things epouranian was awake in them not an atom more than in the South-African Bushman, in whom most travellers have failed to discover even the notion of a power above him. But to wake the faculty in them what could be so powerful as the story and the message of Jesus? and Mr. Christopher had not spoken of him!
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