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Bushies don't generally carry their swags out of pubs in their sleep, or walk neither; it's only city swells who do that. Where's the blessed matches? "Well, Tom agreed to go, and presently I saw a shadow under the window, and lowered away. "'All right? I asked in a whisper. "'All right!" whispered the shadow. "I lowered the other swag. "'All right?
We're two hard-working, innocent bushies, down for an innocent spree, and we run against a cold-blooded professional sharper, a paltry sneak and a coward, who's got neither the brains nor the pluck to work in the station of life he togs himself for. He tries to do us out of our hard-earned little hundred and fifty no matter whether we had it or not and I'm obliged to take him down.
"We want to see Miss Royanna," Rod replied, shrinking back somewhat from the man's fierce look. "See Miss Royanna!" the man shouted in surprise. "If that isn't the limit! Well, she can't be seen, that's all there is about it." "But we have come all the way to see her," Rod insisted. "All the way from where?" "From Hillcrest." "Ho, ho! that's a good one. D'ye think she'd gee such bushies as you?
"I'm kicking these two bushies out, sir, for their impudence in coming here," the little man replied, letting go of his grip upon the boy. As Rod turned, his heart gave a great leap, for there before him stood the very man with "the splendid eyes and grey hair," who had so won Miss Arabella's heart. For a few seconds John Markham eyed the two boys.
We "bushies" and "outbackers" from the Land of the Kangaroo stepped down into the mud-holes just vacated by an earl, several lords, and as noble and proud a regiment as ever won glory on a battle-field. The Prince of Wales was a staff-captain in the army of the Somme doing his bit in the mud and misery like the rest of us.
"So I did," the Maluka laughed back. "But before I had time to dazzle the bushies with her the Wizard of the Never-Never charmed her into a bush-whacker." "Into a CHARMING bush-whacker, he MEANS!" the traveller said, bowing before his introduction; and I wondered how the Maluka could have thought for one moment that "mere men" would prove unsatisfying.
A Gentleman Sharper and Steelman Sharper Steelman and Smith had been staying at the hotel for several days in the dress and character of bushies down for what they considered a spree. The gentleman sharper from the Other Side had been hanging round them for three days now.
The other boarders were loitering over dinner, in their rooms, or gone out; the three were alone on the balcony, which was a rear one. Gentleman Sharper moved his position, carelessly, noiselessly, yet quickly, until he leaned on the rail close to the ferns and could overhear every word the bushies said. He had dropped his cigar overboard, and his scented handkerchief behind a fern-pot en route.
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