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Updated: May 19, 2025
"I am glad that the stranger is not a bushranger," Tom said, "but he must not expect to make laws for us poor miners. When we have dust stolen from us, we have a right to deal with the thief, and I shall claim my privilege." "That is only just," murmured the miners.
Black masks were donned, Fork Lightning was stationed on a stump near by to give warning of the approach of a victim, and the others took up suitable positions, while Dick fitted Gable with a mask so that his appearance might not discredit the gang. 'There, said Dick. 'you're a bushranger now, re member. 'Crickey! cried the old man, delighted. 'An'; you'll be hanged if you're caught.
But the plain fact is that most of the bushrangers were infamous wretches for whom hanging was a quite inadequate punishment. The bushranger, as a rule, was an escaped convict or a criminal fleeing from justice. Sometimes he acted singly, sometimes he had a gang of followers. A cave in some out-of-the-way spot, good horses and guns, were his necessary equipment. The site of the cave was important.
"You you that, Edward!" he uttered brokenly. "All that. Will you arrest me now?" "I cannot." The bushranger threw aside all bravado and irony, and said: "I knew you could not. Why did I come? Listen but first, will you shelter me here to-night?" The soldier's honourable soul rose up against this thing, but he said slowly at last: "If it is to save you from peril, yes."
"Two can play at that game, friend," exclaimed Burton, lifting his musket and letting fly at the bushranger. We imitated his example; but when the smoke cleared off we found that the men were still making their upward way, springing with wonderful agility from rock to rock. We had to stop to reload; then, notwithstanding their threats, we again began to climb after them.
We have a keg full for our own use, and what more do you desire?" "I have a great reluctance to waking up and finding a knife held at my throat," I replied, "by some gentleman who has more courage than money. We have a pretty establishment here, and many a bushranger would be glad to relieve us of our property without asking permission."
Generally he was a scoundrel of the lowest type, an escaped murderer who took to the Bush to escape hanging, and lived by robbery and violence. But a few a very few were rather of the type of the English Robin Hood or the Scotch Rob Roy, living a lawless life, but not being needlessly cruel. Many books have been written on this tradition, glorifying the bushranger.
Poor Fred, who looked about as much like Black Darnley as the man in the moon, turned slightly red with mortification; and to this hour, an allusion to his wonderful likeness to the celebrated bushranger is sure to bring on a fit of the sulks that will last a day or two.
For every bushranger killed or captured, one hundred pounds are offered, and I need not tell you that we have twelve here which I can verify four dead, two wounded, and six prisoners. That is not a bad night's work, I should think." "But we think it wrong to accept of money for shedding human blood," Fred said.
"I will, because in the first place I owe my life to your devotion on that day, and therefore you shall share in all the benefits that are likely to arise from Bill's death; and in the second place it is necessary for me to have a companion to prosecute my searches for the treasure." "Then the bushranger revealed the secret?" we eagerly asked. "Listen, and you shall judge.
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