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Updated: May 7, 2025
'Get me my things and the cattle-pup, please, daddy. I was scared now. His things were some toys and rubbish he'd brought from Gulgong, and I remembered, the last time he had convulsions, he took all his toys and a kitten to bed with him. And ''night-night' and 'daddy' were two-year-old language to Jim. I'd thought he'd forgotten those words he seemed to be going back.
Mother and Sal ran out and gathered the clothes, and fixed the spout, and looked cheerfully up at the sky. Joe sat in the chimney-corner thumping the ribs of a cattle-pup, and pinching its ears to make it savage. He had been training the pup ever since its arrival that morning.
For the first hour or so, along the road, he was telling me all about his adventures at his auntie's. 'But they spoilt me too much, dad, he said, as solemn as a native bear. 'An' besides, a boy ought to stick to his parrans! I was taking out a cattle-pup for a drover I knew, and the pup took up a good deal of Jim's time.
I threw down bags and the blankets and 'possum rug against the wheel to make a camp for Jim and the cattle-pup, and got a gin-case we used for a tucker-box, the frying-pan and billy down, and made a good fire at a log close handy, and soon everything was comfortable. Ryan's Crossing was a grand camp.
The cattle-pup broke away from Joe and strolled into the yard. It barked feebly at Callaghan, then proceeded to worry his heels. It seemed to take Callaghan for a calf. Callaghan kicked it up against the rails. It must have taken him for a cow then. Dave's blood was up. He was desperate.
It was night, and the girl that opened the door screamed and fainted away like a shot." He lit his pipe. "Mother was upstairs howling and moaning in a chair, with all the girls boo-hoo-ing round her for company. The old man was sitting in the back kitchen crying to himself." He put his hat down on the ground, dinted in the crown, and poured some water into the hollow for his cattle-pup.
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