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'Yarra stop 'way pretty quick when Boss bin there. 'Suppose Yarra catch up track of Boss belonga him, come back when sun jump up, tell me. 'My word! Budgery that! Mine tink it Boss yabber-yabber longa trooper. Yarra set off at once, and Done continued his work.
Good fella longa boy." Once George illuminated his conversation with an aphorism. He no look out that way. That boy tchuk 'em boomerang. Boomerang stick in leg belonga Tom. Tom no feel 'em first time. He stan' up yet. Bi'mby when want walk about, tumble down. Look out. Hello! see 'em boomerang alonga leg. He no more can walk about." The boss remarked "Might be long time, Tom feel 'em leg sore."
She was determined to run away as soon as the steamer landed her, for that part of the North was not her country, and she could not live anywhere else. Besides, she was "sorry belonga that boy Jim." During the first night of her homeward pilgrimage she never ceased walking among rocks and through the scrub, for she was fearful of being recaptured.
Suppose you fella kick'm up row big fella government come clear you fella out. No more let you sit down longa this country." "Country belonga me. You no humbug. You bin catch'm that fella Tchoosie l-o-n-g time. You bin make'm good fella. Belonga me now." The disgusting old fellow went on to explain that he intended to come up to the house that evening. "You hunt'm that fella Tchoosie, me catch'm.
Then I put a customary question: "Yes, what all go alonga that place like when you die? You father old man when he die. He old man now alonga that good place? Little Jinny young when she die. That fella young along that place? That piccaninny belonga Nelly piccaninny alonga that place?" "Yes, all asame when you die you along that place." "Good boy and bad boy-rogue, all go one place? "Yes.
'What was her name? 'The Airdale, he replied glibly. 'Belonga to Liverpool fine biga ship. We bound to Pam in New Caledonia to load chroma ore, and run ashore on dark night. Ship break up very quick' and then he spun off the rest of his yarn, and a very plausible one it was, too.
Yes, he said, that was true, but 'Goda help him, he would 'speaka true. He and the nine men with him did not want to go to New Caledonia, and did not want to have anything more to do with the captain, who was a very 'harda' man, and so they had stood to the northward, meaning to land on one of the New Hebrides. 'What was the captain's name? 'Smeeth Captain Johna Smeeth. Belonga to Liverpool.
You kill mine Boss? Perhaps it was the remembrance of the many kicks and cuts he had received at the hands of Monkey Mack that inspired the impish eagerness in Yarra's face, perhaps his affection for the dead man moved him. Jim Done looked at the boy curiously. 'Boss belonga you sit down by Boobyalla? he asked. Yarra shook his head. 'No fear, he said.
Though he has not a shadow of respect for the "debil-debil," George has a firm faith in the existence in the neighbourhood of Cooktown of a camp of what he calls "groun' gins." His experience with these mysterious subterranean sirens he thus describes "Little bit outside Cooktown camp belonga groun' gins. Me and Sargen' go look big corrobboree; my word. Some gins come out alonga groun' from hole.
I was inclined to smile when he said, "Might be hegg belonga scrub hen sit down!" He scooped out some of the rubbish the crevice was so narrow that it barely admitted his arm and finally dug a hole with his fingers fully fourteen inches deep, revealing an egg, pink with freshness. A more unlikely spot for a scrub fowl to lay, could hardly be imagined.
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