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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Good for you, Sally, old man!" cried Box-o'-Tricks, taking it up. "An', besides, I don't b'lieve Macquarie is dead at all. He's always dyin', or being reported dead, and then turnin' up again. Where did you hear about it, Awful?" The Example ruefully rubbed a corner of his roof with the palm of his hand.
Barcoo reached for his drink and drank slowly; he needed time to think Box-o'-Tricks studied his boots Sally Thompson looked out at the weather the shanty-keeper wiped the top of the bar very hard and the rest shifted round and "s'posed they'd try a game er cards." Barcoo set his glass down very softly, pocketed his hands deeply and defiantly, and said: "Well, what of that?
The chaps in the bar of Stiffner's shanty were talking about Macquarie, an absent shearer who seemed, from their conversation, to be better known than liked by them. "I ain't seen Macquarie for ever so long," remarked Box-o'-Tricks, after a pause. "Wonder where he could 'a' got to?" "Jail, p'r'aps or hell," growled Barcoo. "He ain't much loss, any road."
Stiffner and Box-o'-Tricks were down, two others were holding Barcoo back, and someone had pinned Awful Example by the shoulders from behind. "Let me go!" he yelled, too blind with passion to notice the movements of surprise among the men before him. "Let me go! I'll smash any man that that says a word again' a mate of mine behind his back. Barcoo, I'll have your blood! Let me go!
"There's there's a lot in what you say, Sally Thompson," he admitted slowly, totally ignoring Box-o'-Tricks. "But but "Oh, we've had enough of the old fool," yelled Barcoo. "Macquarie was a spieler, and any man that ud be his mate ain't much better." "Here, take a drink and dry up, yer ole hass!" said the man behind the bar, pushing a bottle and glass towards the drunkard. "D'ye want a row?"
Everyone moved uneasily: Sally Thompson turned the other side to the bar, crossed one leg behind the other, and looked down over his hip at the sole and heel of his elastic-side the barman rinsed the glasses vigorously Longbones shuffled and dealt on the top of a cask, and some of the others gathered round him and got interested Barcoo thought he heard his horse breaking away, and went out to see to it, followed by Box-o'-Tricks and a couple more, who thought that it might be one of their horses.
The old man took the bottle and glass in his shaking bands and painfully poured out a drink. "There's a lot in what Sally Thompson says," he went on, obstinately, "but but," he added in a strained tone, "there's another point that I near forgot, and none of you seemed to think of it not even Sally Thompson nor nor Box-o'-Tricks there."
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