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Yer knockin' yerself bad, an' you don't know it. Wills was a pore harmless weed, so he kin pass; but look'ere there ain't a drover, nor yet a bullock driver, nor yet a stock-keeper, from 'ere to 'ell that could n't 'a' bossed that expegition straight through to the Gulf, an' back agen, an' never turned a hair with sich a season as Burke had. Don't sicken a man with yer Burke.
Why, there was no end to that feller's childishness. An' mind you, this was among the tamest blackfellers in the world. Why, Burke was dotin'. Wants a young feller, with some life in him, for to boss a expegition; an' on top o' Burke's swellishness an' uselessness, dash me if he wasn't forty!" "Well, no; he war n't too old, Mosey," interposed Price deprecatingly.
He burked that expegition, right enough. ''Howlt! Dis-MOUNT! Grand style o' man for sich a contract! Why, the ole man, here, seen him out beyond Menindie, with his " "Pardon me, Mosey was Mr. Price connected with the expedition?" Went up with stores, an' come down with wool." Willoughby, who probably had wept over the sufferings of Burke's party on their way to Menindie, seemed badly nonplussed.
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