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"We've had enough of this gory, maudlin, sentimental tommy-rot," he said. "Here, Barcoo, stump up or I'll belt it out of your hide! I'll I'll take yer to pieces!" But Douglas didn't leave the town. He sent his wife and children to Sydney until the heat wave was past, built a new room on to the cottage, and started a book and newspaper shop, and a poultry farm in the back paddock, and flourished.
The drunkard lifted his head and glared wildly round with bloodshot eyes. "Don't you don't you talk about him! Drop it, I say! DROP it!" "What the devil's the matter with you now, anyway?" growled the barman. "Got 'em again? Hey?" "Don't you don't you talk about Macquarie! He's a mate of mine! Here! Gimme a drink!" "Well, what if he is a mate of yours?" sneered Barcoo.
After so many bitter disappointments this was a much-needed encouragement to the colony. Still in the fruitful year of 1858, we must accompany the elder brother, A. C. Gregory, on his Barcoo expedition.
Stiffner turned his back, and Barcoo spat viciously and impatiently. "Yes," drivelled the drunkard, "I've got another point for for the defence of my mate, Macquarie " "Oh, out with it! Spit it out, for God's sake, or you'll bust!" roared Stiffner. "What the blazes is it?" "HIS MATE'S ALIVE!" yelled the old man. "Macquarie's mate's alive! That's what it is!"
He can do many things for himself, and he's proud of it. He says he can see many things that he couldn't see when he had his eyes. You seldom hear him swear, save in a friendly way; he seems much gentler, but he reckons he would stand a show with Barcoo-Rot even now, if Barcoo would stand up in front of him and keep yelling " "By the way," I asked, "how did Bogan lose the sight of his other eye?"
So far as can be seen, this accusation was utterly groundless, as there was no saying to what part of the Gulf Burke and Wills would penetrate, and he was as likely to meet with traces of them on the Barcoo as well as anywhere else.
Everyone moved uneasily: Sally Thompson turned the other side to the bar, crossed one leg behind the other, and looked down over his hip at the sole and heel of his elastic-side the barman rinsed the glasses vigorously Longbones shuffled and dealt on the top of a cask, and some of the others gathered round him and got interested Barcoo thought he heard his horse breaking away, and went out to see to it, followed by Box-o'-Tricks and a couple more, who thought that it might be one of their horses.
I was on one side of the cattle, like it might be here, with a small bit of a fire; and my mate, Barcoo Jim, he was right opposite on the other side of the cattle, and had gone to sleep under a log. The rest of the men were in the camp fast asleep.
Even at that period, however, the eastern interior was not all entirely unknown, as Mitchell's Victoria River or Barcoo, and the Cooper's and Eyre's Creeks of Sturt had already been discovered.
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