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The print on the card was deeply silvered. It showed the base of a banyan tree by a bus stop: high roots radiated out and sank below the sidewalk; a man was asleep, cradled between two roots, a lunch box by his waist, one arm stretched out along the top of a root, fingers dangling, the angles of his knees and elbows blending with the bends in the roots. "Not bad, Batman," Joe said. "Next Friday."
Pat, my batman, who was always a Job's comforter, informed me that the Germans would lie in wait for me to revenge this outrage; but if I had taken any notice of him, I would never have been able to do my job.
"Is your batman unfit for duty, sir?" he inquired. "Yes, he is, often," said Barry indignantly. "Did you report him, sir?" inquired the sergeant major. "No, I did not." "Then, sir, I am afraid that until you do your duty I can do nothing," answered the sergeant major, with suave respect. "If you did your duty," Barry was moved to say, "then Hobbs would not need to be reported.
We have seen that the brothers Henty, of Tasmania, had formed a settlement at Portland Bay, and in 1835 the historic founding of Port Phillip settlement by Batman took place, so that the mere extension of settlement would soon have thrown open for settlement the splendid area that Mitchell was just in time to claim as his discovery.
The best commoditie there to bee bought, is raw silke, and is sold in the Summer time for 38. shaughs the Laighon batman, which is litle aboue 40. li. waight, and for ready money: also there is to bee had what store of Alom you will, and sold there for one bisse the Teueris batman.
I got into our wagon-lines last night after midnight, having had a cold ride along frozen roads through white wintry country. I was only half-expected, so my sleeping-bag hadn't been unpacked. I had to wake my batman and tramp about a mile to the billet; by the time I got there every one was asleep, so I spread out my sleeping-sack and crept in very quietly.
Batman's party clothed him and treated him well, and for a time he acted as interpreter, smoothing over many of the difficulties that arose with the natives, and rendering the formation of the settlement much less difficult than it might have been. Excitement in Tasmania.# The news taken over by Batman caused a commotion in Tasmania.
Even, however, in the secluded Headquarters at Bruce's Ravine I could not keep my health, and Hummel's art was unavailing. The average soldier on Gallipoli broke down after a month or two. Comparatively few endured more than three months. Few of the sick came back to Turkey. Some, like my first batman Dinsdale, died in hospital at Alexandria or in Malta.
The first settler, John Batman, arrived in the harbour of Port Phillip as recently as the year 1835, since which time the colony has been planted, the city of Melbourne has been built, and Victoria covered with farms, mines, towns, and people.
We cannot recall the official designation of this trench; we always spoke of it as Armstrong Alley, in compliment to our Brigade Major who had driven us to the task of constructing it. It happened one quiet forenoon that a batman was cleaning his officer's revolver.
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