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'Some day you'll think different, says Starlight, looking back at him. I often remembered it afterwards. 'Well, lads, says father, looking straight at us, 'I wasn't sure as you'd come. Starlight has been barneying with me about sending for you. But we've got a big thing on now, and I thought you'd like to be in it. 'We have come, says I, pretty short.
It's wonderful how soon people rise grand notions and begin to get too big for their boots. 'Hello, Dick, what's up? says Jonathan. 'No swag, 'lastic-side boots, flyaway tie, new rifle, old horse; looks a bit fishy don't it? 'I can't stop barneying, I said. 'Have you a decent horse to give me? The game's up. I must ride night and day till I get home. Heard anything?
The diggers used to crowd round and kick up a bit of a row sometimes when two lots of men were fighting for the same claim and gold coming up close by; but what he said was law, and no mistake. When he gave it out they had to take it and be content. Then he used to ride away and not trouble his head any more about it; and after a bit of barneying it all seemed to come right.
There was no time, he said, to be lost barneying; and he told Dad to take his old mare Jean and go at once for Sweeney. Sweeney was the publican at Kangaroo Creek, with a reputation for curing snake-bite. Dad ran out, mounted Jean and turned her head for Sweeney's. But, at the slip-rails, Jean stuck him up, and would n't go further.
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