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"Bullocky come on," he called, waddling to the house and waking us from our first sleep; and as the deep-throated bell boomed out again the Maluka said drowsily: "The homestead's only won by a head. Mac's at the Warlochs." At "fowl-sing-out" we were up, and found Bertie's Nellie behind the black boys' humpy shyly peeping round a corner.
"Played for the London Scottish in their opening match last week, and was on the ball from whistle to whistle. Not so quick on a sprint you find that yourself, Munro, eh what? but a good hard-working bullocky forward. Last match I shall have for many a day, for I am off to South America next week." "You have given up Bradfield altogether then?" "Too provincial, my boy!
The Oracle had Uncle Bob, of course, and long Dave Regan, the drover a good-hearted, sawny kind of chap that'd break the devil's own buck-jumper, or smash him, or get smashed himself and little Jimmy Nowlett, the bullocky, and one or two of the old, better-class diggers that were left on the field.
As to the effect of the wound they say, "Suppose that fella nail go along your foot, you sing out all a same bullocky all night. Leg belonga you swell up and jump about? Might you die." One boy described the detested creature "That fella like stone. Head belonga him no good all hole."
But the bullocky eyed me curiously, all the same, and I instantly made up my mind to part company with him at the earliest convenient moment. 'You travel y light, sonny, he said; 'but I suppose that's the easiest y way, when all's said. 'Yes, I agreed, with fluent mendacity; 'I got tired of the swag, and I've not very far to go anyway. 'Ah!
For half an hour or so the boys hacked and chopped away at the vines and trees, and then Mickie swept the scene with a comprehensive glance, saying "We getting on good fella now. All a same burning down house." Johnny was much averse from work. "Work, work, work, all asame bullocky," as he put it, rasped on his feelings.
In a minute or two he heard the voice of the bullocky admonishing Bally and Spot with a burst of alliterative invective, and presently the leaders came labouring out of the darkness, the great red bullocks, with bowed heads, moving slowly and with that suggestion of impassive invincibility that goes always with a big team of good working bullocks in action.
A large bullock-team hauling a waggon load of bales blundered slowly along the road, the weary cattle swinging from side to side under the lash of the bullocky, who yelled hoarse profanity with the volubility of an auctioneer and the vocabulary of a Yankee skipper unchecked by authority.
While I was chuckling to myself over this, and picking the twigs from my clothes, I heard the pistol-like crack of a bullock whip, and then, quite near at hand, the cries of a 'bullocky, as they called the bullock-drivers thereabout, full of morning-time vehemence. 'Woa, Darkey! Gee, Roan! Baldy, gee! Nigger! Strawberry! Gee, now, Punch! I'll y well trim you in a minute, me gentleman.
He told me that I had been nominated an honorary captain; but I am under the impression that it is an honour I cannot by national law accept. We went in the afternoon in the car towards Rudnik to examine the one which had broken down. I soon saw that nothing could be done on the spot, and ordered it to continue its "bullocky" progress to the camp.
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