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Beyond the compositions upon the national sport of horse-racing, the only noteworthy Australian subjects in his three slender volumes are 'The Sick Stockrider's Review of the Excitements and Pleasures of a Careless Bush Life, and his Pathetic Self-satisfaction'; 'The Story of a Shipwreck'; 'Wolf and Hound, which describes a duel between the hunted-down bushranger and a trooper; and some verses on the death of the explorer Burke.
The soldier's hands trembled, but it was from imminent illness, not from fear or excitement. He came slowly towards the bushranger who, smiling, said as he advanced: "Yes, arrest me!" Louis Bachelor raised his hand, as though to lay it on the shoulder of the other; but something in the eyes of the highwayman stayed his hand. "Proceed, Captain Louis Bachelor," said Roadmaster in a changed tone.
I've run away to be a bushranger. DICK HADDON. P.S. Pursuit is useless. The widow sank upon the edge of the bed and mopped her tears with a snow-white apron. 'That means that I sha'n't see him for two days at least, she said, 'unless I'm either taken very ill or attacked by a burglar. Why, why can't a poor woman be allowed to bring up her own children in her own way?
Where's ... my ... mates?" The last three words were almost whispered. "Yes," said the trooper eagerly. "Where are they?" The dying man moved his lips, but no sound issued from them. The other bent down closer to him. "That," said the bushranger with long and painful pauses between each word, "you ... will ... never ... know." And with that last taunt on his lips he died.
The word bushranger struck terror into the hearts of all present, and even the jealous husband modulated his wrath, and rubbed his head with some degree of contentment.
"Is it true, then, Doctor, that Hawker, the bushranger, is her husband?" "Quite true, alas! Every one must know it now. But I pray you, Sam, to keep the darkest part of it all from her; don't let her know that the boy fell by the hand of his father." "I could almost swear," said Sam, "that one among the gang is his son too.
I met his gaze without flinching, and perhaps the bushranger read pity in my looks, for he merely uttered a sigh, and I heard him moan. "Pardon me," he hoarsely whispered, extending his hand, "I have been harshly used during my life, and what I am the laws of England have made me. Once I was honest, and free from sin as a child, but an unjust accusation and an unjust conviction made me a bandit.
"Firefoot!" she answered dazedly, "that is the name of Hyland's horse Hyland the bushranger." "This is Hyland's horse," he said, and he patted the animal's neck gently as it thrust its head within the window. "But you said it was your horse," she rejoined slowly, as though the thing perplexed her sorely. "It is Hyland's horse; it is my horse," he urged without looking at her.
"If I had a bushranger within reach," cried Smith, surveying the bodies of his favorites with almost tearful eyes, "I think that I should be tempted to roast him alive, as my poor oxen have been. Why, of all the mean acts that the devils were ever guilty of, this is the meanest."
He kicked violently, and struggled manfully, but in spite of all we bore him to the bushes, when Smith, beginning to understand our attack, uttered a chuckle of delight, and threw his whole weight upon the prostrate bushranger, and began to bind his arms with cords which he always carried about him in case of need.
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