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"No, indeed, miss, not a bit of it," replied Mrs. Martin; "nearly every man in the country has had to travel with his swag one time or another. We are all used to it; and it ain't no use of your looking after him that way, for most likely you'll never see him again." But she did.
No living thing is seen outside, save the lump of copper-coloured humanity prostrate on the sward, beside the bag and swag he has been hindered from taking away. Still the shod hoofs are heard striking against stones, the click sounding clearer and nearer. They inside the jacal listen with bated breath, but hearts beating audibly. Hearts filled with anxiety. How could it be else?
He had something like a religious passion for royal grant; he seemed to look upon it as a sort of sacred swag, and one could not irritate him in any way so quickly and so surely as by an attack upon that venerable institution.
I thought she was a certain Helen Malony, alias Bridget O'Shaughnessy, alias many other names, who was nothing more nor less than the agent of a clever band of thieves who had lifted thousands of dollars of swag in the line of household silver, valuable books, diamonds, and other things from private houses, where she had been employed in various capacities.
Bill scratched behind his ear, and blinked at the dog. The dog woke suddenly to a flea fact. 'Yes, drawled Bill, 'he's mine. 'Well, I'm going Out-Back, and I want a dog, said Jim, gathering the cards briskly. 'Half a quid agin the dog? 'Half a quid be ! drawled Bill. 'Call it a quid? 'Half a blanky quid! 'A gory, lurid quid! drawled Bill desperately, and he stooped over his swag.
A man tramping in search of work is a "swagman" or "swagger," from the "swag" or roll of blankets he carries on his back. Very few words have been adopted from the vigorous and expressive Maori. The convenient "mana," which covers prestige, authority, and personal magnetism; "wharé," a rough hut; "taihoa," equivalent to the Mexican manana; and "ka pai," "'tis good," are exceptions.
The banks of the creek were like ashes, the thin, gnarled gum-bush seemed dry-rotting fast, and in many places the surface of the ground was cracked in squares where it had shrunk in the drought. In the bed of the creek was a narrow gutter of water that looked like bad milk. Mitchell sat on his swag, with his pint of tea on the ground by his foot, and chewed his pipe. "What's up, Jack?" I asked.
'You'll find water just over that rise there. I'll light the fire. 'So you've been over this part before, said Jim, unstrapping the billy from his mate's swag. 'No; this is new country to me. 'Then, how do you know I shall find water beyond that hillock? ''Pon my soul, I don't know why I know, Mike answered; 'but I'll wager my share of our first tub it's there. Jim found the water.
That ain't fair, you know." "But you didn't see it all," cried Rats, getting excited. "He hit me down first! And look here, I'll fight him again for nothing, and you can see fair play." They talked awhile; then Sunlight proposed to second the swag, while his mate supported the old man, and after some persuasion, Milky agreed, for the sake of the lark, to act as time-keeper and referee.
Another man holloaed to 'Mother Henniker' for pickles; but Mother Henniker, without leaving her seat at the bar, told them to 'pickle themselves. Whereupon one of the party, making some allusion to Jack Brien's swag, Jack Brien being absent at the moment, rose from his seat and undid a great roll lying in one of the corners.
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