baldy's

Updated: May 18, 2025

Money, in the shape of fat stock, was running loose, as it were, on every run, and why should not the sagacious Nosey do a little business when Baldy's fat sheep were tempting him, and a market for mutton could be found no farther away than the Nyalong butcher's shop. Baldy left the township happier than usual, carrying under his arm two bottles of Old Tom.

George Dunderdale - The Book of the Bush: Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial: Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others: Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned

Then he walked to Baldy's and pretended to himself that he was surprised to find it empty. What had happened the previous night was only a dream, an ugly dream. He met an acquaintance and told him that Baldy was neither in his hut nor with his sheep. The two men called at old Sharp's hut to make enquiries.

George Dunderdale - The Book of the Bush: Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial: Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others: Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned

At Timber the time was passing with discouraging rapidity. Nothing they could do seemed to have any beneficial effect on Baldy's legs the legs that had been such a matter of pride to the boy in the old Golconda days.

Esther Birdsall Darling - Baldy of Nome

Until she knew the answer she didn't want to think at all, least of all about those things which Baldy's talk to-night kept rousing echoes of. "Oh, they all look good when they're far away," she said, picking that bit of comic supplement slang deliberately to annoy him.

Henry Kitchell Webster - Mary Wollaston