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Updated: June 28, 2025
'Well, how much do you want? asked the man in the mushroom hat. 'A fiver, I said, replied Jack indifferently. 'And the blanky stuff in my pocket before I get on the blanky horse. 'Are you frightened of us running away without paying you? inquired one of the passengers who had gathered round. 'I'm frightened of the horse bolting with me without me being paid, said Flash Jack.
"I'm in favour of blanky well tarrin' an' featherin' him an' kickin' him out of the town!" shouted Bogan. "It would be a good turn to his wife, too; she'd be well rid of the ." "Perhaps she's fond of him," suggested Mitchell; "I've known such cases before. I saw them sitting together on the veranda last night when they thought no one was looking."
But as you are fren's of 'is, as we're all fren's of 'is, I'll take it on myself to tell you wot that noble-natured man is giving me money for. Blowed if 'e shall 'ide his bloomin' light under a blanky bushel any longer." And then he explained that for putting his name to a sheet or two of paper, and addressing a few envelopes, he was getting more money than he knew what to do with.
The passengers climbed to their places, thinking hard. A mile or so along the road the man with the cork hat remarked, with much truth 'Those blanky Bushmen have got too much time to think. The Bushmen returned to the shanty as soon as the coach was out of sight, and proceeded to 'knock down' the fiver. Jimmy Grimshaw's Wooing.
At last, with the bored air of a man who has gone through the same performance too often before, he stepped deliberately up to the fence and spat over it into New South Wales. After which he got leisurely through and spat back on Queensland. "That's what I think of the blanky colonies!" he said.
Spotting a couple of donkeys in the charge of one Arab donkey boy, they schemed with each other with a view to his undoing. "Very gude, Noo Zealand," said the dusky one when approached. "Gib it twenty piastres for stashion." "All right, ole sport. You'll get it at t'other end, and make your blanky bone-bags go. Savvy?"
"It's bad enough," he said, "to get all these messages through by voice. I haven't a dog's chance of doing it if I have to buzz each one." The rear station spoke again and informed him that he had several urgent messages waiting. The forward signaler replied that he also had several messages, and one in particular was urgent above all others. "The blanky line is being pushed in," he said.
'Theer ain't no sign o' cattle theer, said the doctor; 'more likely a ewe in trouble about her lamb. 'Oh, the blanky dingoes at the sheep, said Mac. 'I wish we had a gun might get a shot at them. Doc. Wild hitched the skirt of a long China silk coat he wore, free of a hip-pocket. He always carried a revolver.
Gents is courteously requested not to speak all in a crowd." "Shet that blanky door," said the mummy cabman, sourly. "And 'op it," added his late opponent. "We don't want none of your sort 'ere." "Den you ain't my long-lost brudders after all," said the newcomer, regretfully. "I t'ought youse didn't look handsome enough for dat. Good-night to youse, gents."
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