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The land-sharks voraciously attacked these excesses in the old surveys, and filed upon such portions with new scrip as unappropriated public domain. Wherever the identifications of the old tracts were vague, and the corners were not to be clearly established, the Land Office would recognize the newer locations as valid, and issue title to the locators. Here was the greatest hardship to be found.
Now with this breeze we could run up to Bristol and drop the Captain by morning, which would save him from being snapped up by any land-sharks on the road. 'Aye, aye, cried Long John. 'The King's horse are out beyond Weston, but he could give them the slip if he had the Maria under him. 'Well, said Murgatroyd, 'we could get back by three long tacks.
We groped about for some time in vain. "Can you both swim?" asked the sailor. "Yes; but it's a long way across, and there are perhaps crocodiles in the water," I answered. "Better be drowned or swallowed up by a crocodile, my lads, than retaken by those land-sharks," he observed. "It must come to that if we cannot find the canoe."
Presently a fellow galloped up to us, crying out, 'Ware hawk! ware hawk! the land-sharks are out from Burgh, and Allonby Tom will lose his cargo if you do not bear a hand. Most of my company seemed to make hastily for the shore on receiving this intelligence.
Hardie stared, and remained on his guard, puzzled; while David Dodd showed his pocket-book, and in the pride of his heart, and the fever in his blood for there were two red spots on his cheeks all the time told the cold pair its adventures in a few glowing words; the Calcutta firm the two pirates the hurricane the wrecks, the land-sharks he had saved it from.
He paused a moment, and then, extending his hand as those dear old-time ones used to do in debate, he enunciated the spirit of that Ruling that subsequently drove the land-sharks to the wall, and placed the seal of peace and security over the doors of ten thousand homes.
Farther, he pledges that he will hereafter keep clear of the "land-sharks," nor ever again give the fellow with the face like a snatch-block a chance to run him aboard the "Brig Standfast." As for Mr. Detective Fitzgerald, he still pursues his profession, and is one of the kindest and most efficient officers of his corps.
Wayman, for he had a goodish bit of money about him; and there's land-sharks as dangerous as those you meet with on the sea." "So there are, mate," answered the landlord; "and there's some queer characters about this neighbourhood, for the matter of that." "I dare say you're right, Mr. Wayman," returned Joyce; "and I'll tell you what it is.
Lieutenant Brown gave him to his cousin that's in the Middleburgh house of Vanbeest and Vanbruggen, and told him some goose's gazette about his being taken in a skirmish with the land-sharks; he gave him for a footboy. Me let him escape! the bastard kinchin should have walked the plank ere I troubled myself about him. 'Well, and was he bred a foot-boy then?
It is not easy to see how else he could have dealt with the land-sharks, of whom there had been an ugly rush from Sydney on the news of the coming annexation, and most of whom as promptly retreated on finding the proclamation to be a reality.
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