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Travelling with the swag in Australia is variously and picturesquely described as "humping bluey," "walking Matilda," "humping Matilda," "humping your drum," "being on the wallaby," "jabbing trotters," and "tea and sugar burglaring," but most travelling shearers now call themselves trav'lers, and say simply "on the track," or "carrying swag." And there you have the Australian swag.
He was clear of murder, for he said it was never his practice to carry firearms, being a nervous man and apt to use them if he had them and got alarmed when busy burglaring. He relied chiefly on his extraordinary agility and steady head to escape. His only yarn, however, was his last. He and a friend had been detailed by the gang to the job of plundering one of a row of houses.
'It makes me think of old times, said the burglar, smearing his ragged coat-cuff across his eyes 'about the apples in the orchard at home, and the rats at threshing time, and the rabbits and the ferrets, and how pretty it was seeing the pigs killed. Finding him in this softened mood, Jane said 'I wish you'd tell us how you came to choose our house for your burglaring to-night.
Harleston," the manager acquiesced instantly. "Come down to the office and we'll go over the guest diagram, while I have every unoccupied room looked into. In fact, sir, we'll do anything short of burglaring our guests." "I'll be right down," Harleston said; "after I've bathed my face and straightened up a bit."
"Eases his right foot, and has his boots made to order." "It is very odd," I remarked aloud to Mrs. Stott. "That it is, sir," she answered; adding, "I hope to gracious none of them mobsmen are going to come burglaring here!" "Pooh!" I replied; "there is nothing for them to steal, except chairs and tables, and I don't think one man could carry many of them away."
"Oh, please, come quick!" he cried, laying hold of the strong hand as no criminal would have done. "They're burglaring the office and stealing tracings. Come now at once!" "How many?" asked, the policeman with alacrity, as he beckoned to a man in plain clothes opposite. "Two." "All right, lead on, and if you're telling a true yarn we'll nab them. If not well, mind yourself."
He got to robbing when he was nineteen or twenty, and they jailed him; but he broke jail and got away up North here, somers. They used to hear about him robbing and burglaring now and then, but that was years ago. He's dead, now. At least that's what they say. They don't hear about him any more." "What was his name?" "Jake."
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