curry-and-rice

Updated: May 21, 2025

The cook's assistant said that he'd have given a five-pound note for a portrait of Curry-and-Rice when that poodle came back from the shed. The cook was naturally very indignant; he was surprised at first then he got mad. He had the whole afternoon to get worked up in, and at tea-time he went for the men properly. "Wotter yer growlin' about?" asked one. "Wot's the matter with yer, anyway?"

Henry Lawson - While the Billy Boils