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"Me giv' 'em Mickie; Bo'sun alonga Cooktown. He want to come up this way now." The letter was a mere token of material expression of the fact that the sender was in the land of the living, and of his faith in the bearer, who was charged with all the personal messages and news.
One time more alonga tea tell it that big fella Boss gib it daily-bread." "Well, you get plenty." "N-a-hr! No get 'em. Hominy, with prayer, is the standing dish at that station. Among the most cunning of civilised blacks was a gentleman, well up in years, known as Michael Edward. He had been everywhere and had seen everything, and was full of what we call worldly wisdom.
Constraint was dreadful to him, and the sorest trial which he endured was the suppression of artistic longings; but he made pictures, he tells me, everywhere "alonga wind, alonga cloud altogether, alonga water, alonga dirt, alonga stone." They were mostly imaginative, but to his mind, in fine frenzy rolling, they were soothing and real.
Gifts of birds'-nests, eggs, ferns, orchids in flower, a cassowary chick, neat dilly-bags, gay with crude Pigments, were brought to the house with messages such as this: "That fella 'Pad-oo-byer' he bin gib'em alonga 'Ky-ee-rah." The gifts were tearfully repudiated.
In another locality a meteor signifies the death of an individual, and is referred to as "Tee-go-binah." When a death cannot be directly attributed to it locally, the phenomenon is referred to with such rustic logic as this: "Some fella dead alonga 'nother camp. Might be longa way." The ancients felt "the sweet influences of the Pleiades."
She had been ill with a fever. She prayed to God to send her assistance. God sent Black Mary the "whitest" gin in all the land. Or, at least, God sent King Jimmy first, and he sent Black Mary. He put his black face round the door post, took in the situation at a glance, and said cheerfully: "All right, missus I bring my old woman, she down alonga creek."
Spreading out a handkerchief, I put the awful atom on it gingerly, while the foster-mother reiterated her counsel to "tchuck'm alonga scrub." In the guise of a frail bundle at arm's-length was Soosie conducted to a civilised home. Dismay tempered with pity greeted her. "How horrible! How dirty!" "Is it really a little girl? It looks like a wild animal." "Do let me nurse it."
Kill'm fish, too many. B'mbi me fella go alonga camp. Me tell'm two fella, 'You no more mak'm die. Me bin find'm that fella hair belonga Tom Goat. B'mbi two fella him get up; him no more die; he walk about."
At last her mistress said "All right, Laura, suppose you no take 'em medicine, I go for doctor." "No, no, missis. Me die meself!" A variety troupe visited the town, and Laura was taken to a performance. Among the "freaks" were General Mite and his consort. Laura came back with this proud boast "I bin shake hands alonga piccaniny!"
At a camp of the Native Mounted Police the sergeant reported a trooper for beating his gin. "What you bin doing, Paddy?" asked the sub-inspector. "You bin hammer 'em Topsy?" Paddy, at the salute "Yes, sir, please sir, me bin hammer 'em that fella. That fella too flash; me no bin hammer 'em all asame black-fella. Hammer 'em all asame white man, alonga strap."
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