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Well, las' year, when we went up emp'y to Bargoona same trip the ole man got that wonderful drink off Moriarty who should we fine there but this Alf, waitin' for wool, an' due for the fust load. No fear o' him goin' up emp'y nyther. He'd manage to collar six ton"
A sair day they had of it; their hands was never aff the sheets, and it perishin' cauld ower cauld to snaw; and aye they would get a bit nip o' wind, and awa' again, to pit the emp'y hope into them. Eh, man! but they had a sair day for the last o't! He would have had a prood, prood heart that won ashore upon the back o' that." "And were all lost?" I cried. "God help them!"
Then a window opened above my head, and I heard the well-known voice of the woman exclaiming, 'Who's that? Poll Onion's out to-night, and the rooms are emp'y 'cept mine. Why, God bless me, man, is it you? 'Hag! that was not your daughter. She slammed the window down. 'Let me in, or I will break the door. The window was opened again.
A sair day they had of it; their hands was never aff the sheets, and it perishin' cauld ower cauld to snaw; and aye they would get a bit nip o' wind, and awa' again, to pit the emp'y hope into them. Eh, man! but they had a sair day for the last o't! He would have had a prood, prood heart that won ashore upon the back o' that. 'And were all lost? I cried. 'God held them!
William remembered how the ci-devant man-o'-war's-man had boasted of his craft, as he called the kit, proclaiming it "a reg'lar life-buoy in case o' bein' cast away at sea," and declaring that, "if 't war emp'y, as he hoped it never should be, it would float the whole crew o' a pinnace or longboat."
Fast as I get a roller full and go over and emp'y 'em on the bank the crows come 'n' eat 'em up look a' there!" I saw. "Wesley, your load does seem greater than you can bear." He wore trousers of a style prevalent among the Basins, of meal sacks; only his were not shaped at all there was simply a sack for each leg, tied with gathering strings at the ankles.
I throwed away my emp'y gun, an' drawed my bowie, expectin' nothin' else than a regular stand-up tussle wi' the bar. I knowd it wur no use turnin' tail now; so I braced myself up for a desp'rate fight. "But jest as the bar hed got 'ithin ten feet o' me, an idee suddintly kim into my head. I hed been to Santa Fe, among them yaller-hided Mexikins, whur I hed seed two or three bull-fights.
"Las' time I unloaded at Runnymede an' it was on'y one ton lebm; for we was goin' out emp'y for wool, on account o' them two Vic. chaps snappin' our loads. I disremember if I tole you the yarn when I pulled you at the Willandra. Or whisky? But I think it was brandy. Yes, it was brandy." "Well?" interrogated Mosey, after a pause.
'The very airth under your feet seems to be a-sinkin' away, and the sweet sunshine itself seems as if it all belonged to the Gorgios, when you're a-follerin' the patrin with the emp'y belly. 'I thank God, continued Wilderspin, 'that I once wanted food. 'More nor I do, muttered old Mrs.
See, yonder seems to be the headquarters of the camp. We will report our arrival, and then see to breakfast." "Ay I'll be thankfu' for a bite o' somethin', for I'm fair famished; an' there's a proverb, I think, that says it's ill fechtin' on an emp'y stammack. It seems to me there's less order an' mair noise yonder than befits a camp o' serious men specially on a Sabbath mornin'."
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