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You're too long now for Mick, I think." "Oh, anything you like, sir," said Wally, easily. "I haven't met any bad 'uns on Billabong. Warder, or Brown Betty, or Nan have you got them all still?" "They're all here," the squatter said. "Cecil generally rides Betty, and I believe Burton's using old Warder just now. But you can have Nan, if you like." "Thanks very much," said Wally.
He would never have employed him were it not for Vic, who was worth very much money to him in the course of the year. She was the most important person within a radius of a hundred and fifty miles, not excepting Rembrandt, the owner of Bomba Station, which was twenty miles square, nor the parson at Magari, ninety miles south, by the Ring-Tail Billabong.
"Get them yourself, you lazy loon!" retorted the lady Opossum. "If you disturb my dreams again this way, I'll make your fur fly." "Take care!" barked back her husband, "or I'll bring you off that branch pretty quickly." "You'd better try!" sneered his wife. "Remember how I landed you into the billabong the other night!"
"Well, Hogg's got enough an' to spare," was Murty's comment. "No union touch about his work. I reckon he's put in sixteen hours a day at that garden since we heard they were comin'." "But there never was any union touch about Billabong," said Mrs. Brown. "Not much! We all know when we're well off," said Murty. "I'll bet no union was ever as good a boss as David Linton."
I don't believe we'd have a home now but for them, Bob." "We certainly wouldn't," Bob answered. "And sometimes I feel as if they'd spoon-fed us. Look at all they've done for us these months at Billabong and all they've taught us, and all the things that they've showered on us. We couldn't pay them back in twenty years." "And they talk as if the favour were on their side," his sister said.
We were just poking up the bank in the slack water, a few hundred yards below the billabong, when Jake said, `Why, there's a horse or something in the river. Then he shouted, `No, by God, it's a man, and we poked the Coffin out into the stream for all she was worth. `Looks like two men fighting in the water, Jake shouts presently. `Hurry up, or they'll drown each other.
There was a big flag flying proudly on Billabong house they found later that the household had unanimously purchased it on the day they heard that Jim had got his captaincy. The gate of the great sanded yard stood open, and near it, on a wide gravel sweep, were the dear and simple and faithful people they loved. Mrs.
The pulse fluttered feebly. The great river flowed very close about his feet. The long slow journey to Billabong homestead was accomplished. The Hermit had never regained consciousness throughout the weary hours during which every jolt of the express-wagon over the rough tracks had sent a throb to the hearts of the watchers.
Presently, however, following an animal, he left her a distance behind. On the edge of a little billabong she came upon a truculent boar. It turned on her, but she fired, and it fell. Seeing another ahead, she pushed on quickly to secure it, too. As she went she half-cocked her rifle. Had her mind been absolutely intent on the sport, she had full cocked it.
"That old Billabong!" said Mrs. Geoffrey, half laughing. "Are you going to live and die in the backblocks, David?" "Why, certainly at least I hope so," he said. "I suppose there must be lucid intervals, now that Norah is grown up, or imagines she is not that she seems to me a bit different from the time when her hair was down.
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