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Updated: June 1, 2025
But clever, well-trained cattle-dogs are a treasure beyond price in the bush; and this we know, taking great pains with our colleys. The cattle lie very close in the dense thickets of foliage, and hide themselves from sight. One may run slap into a beast before it will move. But the dogs traverse the gullies on the stockman's flanks, and start up any cattle that may be in them.
The homestead faced into a big garden spreading into an orchard, now green and gay with the verdancy and the blooms of spring. 'Didn't I tell you? Not a white man round but the motherless drunk there, said Mike. One of the cattle-dogs had returned to the side of the sleeper, and employed himself snapping at the greedy flies, yapping impatiently to keep them from the man's face.
Nearly a dozen other dogs came from round all the corners and under the buildings spidery, thievish, cold-blooded kangaroo-dogs, mongrel sheep- and cattle-dogs, vicious black and yellow dogs that slip after you in the dark, nip your heels, and vanish without explaining and yapping, yelping small fry.
From this original use the cattle-dogs were turned to the brutal sport of bull-baiting, a rude diversion which was indulged in by our ancestors for centuries, and has only disappeared in our less cruel modern days.
Done found the trip to Boobyalla very much longer than he had expected, but the mates reached the homestead at about two o'clock. The place was almost deserted. Two or three wolfish cattle-dogs ran from the huts, and barked at them in a half hearted kind of way; a black boy shouted from the shed, and two gins came to the kitchen door, watching them.
But when she saw little Tacks slip in behind him, and sit meekly down by the door; and when she saw how his character was appreciated by the cattle-dogs, one of whom had his head in the lad's lap, while the other was licking his face when she saw, I say, the little blue and gold apparition, her heart grew pitiful, and, turning to Halbert, she said, "Why, good gracious me!
They ate silently, as hungry men do, while the pigs and cattle-dogs marched in at the open-door, and hustled each other for the scraps that were thrown to them. "How is it the pigs have no tails?" asked Carew. "Bit off, Mister. The dogs bit them off. They've got the ears pretty well chawed off 'em too." Just then a pig and a dog made a simultaneous rush for a bone, and the pig secured it.
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