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Me got 'em letter. Brother belonga gin, belonga Mickie; him gib it!" "No; Mickie sit down alonga Palm Islands. Come back, bi'mby." "Where letter?" I asked. Mattie "Me got 'em," and drawing out a very soiled little parcel, he proudly exposed a piece of greyish wood, about the size and shape of a lead pencil, on which had been cut two continuous intersecting grooves.
Me come more better country blenty everything. Father belonga me sit down. He got two good young fella gins. My word, good one gins. He say 'Hello! you come up? You sit down here altogether. Two fella good gins belonga you!" This was paradise! "I would admonish the world that all persons, indifferently, are not fit for this sort of diversion."
That one white boy," he pointed to Sax, "that one white boy, him belonga my old boss. Him belonga Boss Stobart.... Me stay, Misser Darby? You let Yarloo stay, eh?" The request was made in a voice of entreaty, as if the faithful native was asking a very great favour. Mick at once complied with hearty good will. "Of course you stay, Yarloo. You stay all right. You look after white boy real good."
It was three o'clock in the afternoon when Yarra returned with pick and shovel, and Jim had already selected the spot for Ryder's resting-place, beside a great boulder above the waterfall. There he started to dig the grave. 'Him brother belonga you? asked Yarra. 'Yes, said Jim. 'Good feller, continued Yarra, and his black eyes gleamed maliciously. 'Boss belonga me kill him.
His masterpiece is not original. Indeed he claims no title to the gifts of a composer. "Jacky," a Mackay boy, taught Mickie his favourite romance, and it came to Jacky in a dream. Mickie explains "Cousin alonga that fella die. Jacky go to sleep. That fella dead man all a same like debil-debil come close up and tell 'em corrobboree close up ear belonga Jacky." "What that debil-debil say?"
Me feel 'em fright. Feel 'em cold inside. Too much fright. My word; han' belonga that fella gin cold like anything. That gin say 'Where you from? Me say 'Me come from alonga town. That gin say 'What you look out? Me say 'Me look out bullocky, musser 'em cattle. Tail 'em up. Look out weaner alonga paddick. Plenty hard work. Me dance little bit alonga that gin. Not much. Too fright.
Plenty fella sit down. He bin sing out, 'Hello! You come back from that place? Me bin say 'Yes; that country no good belonga me." A month or so after Nelly was again found in the service of a coloured alien, tugging away with another weak gin at what she calls a "two-fella saw." For her task of sleeper-cutting her reward would probably be a handful of rice and a dose of opium per day.
With averted face he sullenly said: "That fella Tchoosie he run away. He go l-o-n-g way, alonga mountain!" "Look here! You no humbug. Where Soosie sit down? Plenty row along white man suppose Soosie no come back. That fella Soosie belonga Missis. Missis very sorry. She bin make'm Soosie all asame white Mary." Still the face-averting boy reiterated: "That fella Soosie he bin go long way more far.
At first he failed to recognise the photograph, but when it was explained by the pointed allusion to a living Maltese-cross spider close at hand, a gleam of intelligence brightened his bewildered face, and he delivered a self-satisfied dissertation on the order Arachnida that is worth quoting: "That fella Oo-boo-boo. That fella mammy belonga 'nother fella altogether.
Many natural phenomena are associated in the folklore of the blacks with untoward events. Unprotesting Nelly is assured of this by her own sad experience. In tones of deep conviction, which permit of no manner of doubt, she tells me that AM-AN-EE caused the death of her infant "brother belonga Jimmy."
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