United States or Seychelles ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"`I'm damned if I will, says Bogan. `I'm not going to catch me death o' cold to save your skin. If you want me you'll have to bloody well come and git me. Bogan was a good strong swimmer, and he had good horses, but he didn't try to get away I suppose he reckoned he'd have to face the music one time or another and one time is as good as another out back.
On this day's journey we again intersected his footsteps; and I could not avoid following them once more to the pond on the Bogan where he must have first drunk water after a thirst and hunger of four or five days! There was water still there, though it had shrunk two yards from its former margin; but not the impression of a native's foot appeared near it, nor any longer the traces of Mr.
Behind him were two low fellows, the worst in the town, they had all been drinking more than was good for them, and for the first time Mike Bogan saw his only son's boyish face reddened and stupid with whiskey.
He was a gentleman once, Mitchell said, and the old blood was not to be trusted. But, last elections, Douglas worked quietly for Unionism, and gave the leaders certain hints, and put them up to various electioneering dodges which enabled them to return, in the face of Monopoly, a Labour member who is as likely to go straight as long as any other Labour member. "And what became of One-eyed Bogan?"
Bogan in respectful tones, and when he was given a minor place of trust at town elections, he thought with humble gladness that Dan would have less cause to be ashamed of him by and by when he took his own place as gentleman and scholar. For there was something different about Dan from the rest of them, plain Irish folk that they were.
I asked Tom Hall when I met him and Jack Mitchell down in Sydney with their shearing cheques the Christmas before last. "You'd better ask Mitchell, Harry," said Tom. "He can tell you about Bogan better than I can. But first, what about the drink we're going to have?"
It opened and there stood my little wife looking prettier than ever only careworn." Long, impressive pause. "Well, Jack, what did she do?" asked Bogan. "She didn't do nothing." "Well, Jack, and what did she say?" Jack sighed and straightened himself up: "She said she said 'Well, so you've come back." "Painful silence. "Well, Jack, and what did you say?" "I said yes."
We got some dry boughs and made a big fire. Then Bogan stood up and held his arms stiff down to his sides, opening and shutting his hands as if he was in great pain. And I've often thought since what a different man Bogan seemed without his clothes and with the broken bridge of his nose and his eyes covered by the handkerchiefs.
Bogan went pretty free in Bourke after the shearing before last, and in the end he got mixed up in a very ugly-looking business: he was accused of doing two new-chum jackaroos out of their stuff by some sort of confidence trick." "Confidence trick," I said. "I'd never have thought that One-eyed Bogan had the brains to go in for that sort of thing."
From this elevated group of the Canobolas a chain of heights of primary rocks extended into the interior; and the base of the chain appeared to increase in width towards the west, as far as the rivers on each side of it had been explored. These were the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee on the south, and the Macquarie, Bogan, and Darling on the north.
Word Of The Day