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Updated: June 27, 2025
Edward M. Curr knew as much of the Australian horse and his rider as any writer ever did; and this is what he says of the back-country natives: 'They are taciturn, shy, ignorant, and incurious; undemonstrative, but orderly; hospitable, courageous, cool, and sensible. These men ride like centaurs, etc., etc. Yes, yes but why?
It is curious that not once did his passion turn against his blighted fathers; it was against the woman who had borne him, the babe, and lied to him, the boy against her, and against that man, that interloper, dying in a room below. The thought that had been willing to creep out of sight into the back-country of his mind on that first night came out now like a red, devouring cloud.
We had a mangle, which greatly simplified matters on the second day, but it used not to be uncommon on back-country stations to get up the fine things with a flat stone, heated in the wood ashes, for an iron.
But what was the use of a fine manner when there was nobody but a little back-country maiden to see it? "I shall have to endure it till Hortense returns," she said with a sigh; "besides, it is my duty to give you something useful to do in this house. You should be thankful that I allow you to bathe me." Polly's eyes flashed, and the hand holding the sponge trembled.
As a case in point, note what came of the small, original effort of a self-trained back-country Quaker youth named John Dalton, who along towards the close of the eighteenth century became interested in the weather, and was led to construct and use a crude water-gauge to test the amount of the rainfall.
The prince strode to his throne with the port and majesty and the sternness of a Julius Caesar coming to receive and receipt for a back-country kingdom and have it over and get out, and no fooling.
Now and then a visitor came neither with a troublesome request, nor for form's sake or for curiosity, but in simple honesty to pay a tribute of loyalty or speak a word of good cheer which Lincoln received with unfeigned gratitude. Farmers and back-country folk, of the type he could best talk with, came and had more time than he ought to have spared bestowed on them.
Captain F. had pre-empted a tract of one hundred and sixty acres of land, to cover the sources of Spring Creek, and it was his intention to resort to this camp every year during the mullet-fishing season, which is from September to January. The salted mullet is the popular market-fish with the back-country people, though the red-fish is by far the finer for table use.
I don't mean your Congo Quashi or Borria Bungalee from the back-country blocks of New South Wales our Roman bore no resemblance to them; but say your Morocco kaid, your desert chieftain from Tunis or Algiers. Though for long generations he has lost his old-time civilized attainments, he retains in full his manners, his native dignity, his wild Saharan grace.
It would be pleasant to steal another few hours at this back-country House of Peace before returning to the humdrum duties of camp. And the guest yielded to the temptation. "I'm mighty glad you can stay over till morning," said the Master. "I'll send word to Roberts not to bring up the car." As he spoke, he scrawled a penciled line on an envelope-back; then he whistled.
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