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Jane disliked Possum Gully as much as I did. Her feeling being much more defined, it was amusing to hear the flat-out opinions she expressed to Mr Blackshaw, whom, by the way, she termed "a mooching hen of a chap".
You get little Mary away on the quiet and take her out for a stroll and act like a man. The job's finished now, and you won't get another chance like this. 'But how am I to get her out? I said. 'Never you mind. You be mooching round down by the big peppermint-tree near the river-gate, say about half-past ten. 'What good'll that do? 'Never you mind.
It's risky, of course, and we're sure to have a smart brush or two; but I'm not going to be jugged again, not if I know it, and I don't see but what bush-ranging yes, BUSH-RANGING, it's no use saying one thing and meaning another ain't as safe a game, let alone the profits of it, as mooching about cattle-duffing and being lagged in the long run all the same.
Not a ray of daylight anywhere, except the adulterated kind that comes mooching round corridors and prowling in at half-open doors, and floating through the sepulchral gloom like the sleepy eyes of the monsters that terrified me in the caves at Gob-ny-Deigan when I used to play pirate, you remember.
"Come, Rowena," said I, and held out my hand to her. "Let us go." "Land sakes!" exclaimed Maw, just then emerging into the firelight of the sagebrush camp. "I almost got a turn. One of them two bears, Teddy and Eymogene, is always hanging round us begging for doughnuts, and here it was standing on its hind legs and mooching its nose, and I stepped right into it.
The exiles are still mooching around on the pavement and the shuffling one stands on the curb staring dully at the street under him. "Section hands, Alberta, Canada, transportation," says the new bulletin. There is no stir among the exiles. This is to the north. It is still cold in the north. But the shuffling one has turned. His eyes again trace the crudely chalked letters of the bulletin board.
He meant paying another visit that day, so was attired de rigueur, a fact at which Voles, pipe in mouth and lounging in pajamas, promptly scoffed. "Gee!" he cried. "Here's the Senator mooching round again, dressed up to the nines dust coat, morning suit, boots shining, all the frills but visiting low companions all the same. Why doesn't the man turn over a new leaf and become good?"
Yuh didn't see anything of a wild man, down next the river, did yuh?" put in Pink. "Aw, gwan! what wild man?" Happy Jack eyed them suspiciously. "Honest, there's a wild man ranging around here in these hills," Pink declared. "We've been mooching around all forenoon, hunting him. Got sight of him, early this morning, but he got away in the brush."
And when Pearl Jane wiggled, a space of neck between two thin, tight black pigtails a consequent safe-deposit that was fairly crying out to have something dropped down it. A caterpillar mooching along the schoolroom aisle clearly sent by Providence.
She walked down to the creek and stood among the rocks at its edge. She had expected a rippling stream, and, to her disappointment, saw only a broad strip of dry sand, along which Moongarr Bill was mooching, a spade in his hand. 'What are we going to do for water? she exclaimed. 'Dig for it, my ladyship, answered Moongarr Bill. 'That's one of the upside-down things in 'Stralia.
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