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Updated: May 4, 2025
You just do as you're told, that's all you've got to do, said Jack, and he went home to get dressed and bring his wife. After the dancing started that night I had a peep in once or twice. The first time I saw Mary dancing with Jack, and looking serious; and the second time she was dancing with the blarsted Jackaroo dude, and looking excited and happy.
I always thought she had a sweet voice, and I'd have enjoyed it if that damned Jackaroo hadn't been listening too. We listened in silence until she'd finished. 'That gal's got a nice voice, said Jimmy Nowlett. 'Nice voice! snarled Romany, who'd been waiting for a chance to be nasty. 'Why, I've heard a tom-cat sing better. I moved, and Jack, he was sitting next me, nudged me to keep quiet.
The turn for home once made, and Valentine's Brook with its fatal drop left behind, the mare and her stable-mate came away like arrows from the bow. She lay on the rails, her guardian angel hard on her right. Jackaroo might be old, but he was still as good a two-miler as any in England.
It evidently struck them that way, for after a bit they shook hands and went home. "And I wouldn't have married that girl for a thousand pounds," said the jackaroo, relating the incidents to some friends in Sydney. Mary said she wanted a man, if she could get one. There was no life at home nowadays, so Mary went to all the bush dances in the district.
"Bogan's case was hushed up. The police told us to fix it up the best way we could. One of the jackaroos, who reckoned that Bogan had swindled him, was a gentleman, and he was the first to throw a quid in the Giraffe's hat when it went round for Bogan, but the other jackaroo was a cur: he said he wanted the money that Bogan had robbed him of.
A great bank of rain-clouds is rising in that direction, but no one says he thinks it will rain; neither does anybody think we're going to have some rain. None but the greenest jackaroo would venture that risky and foolish observation. Out here, it can look more like rain without raining, and continue to do so for a longer time, than in most other places.
There were two witnesses, but we sent 'em away, and Tom Hall, there, scared the jackaroo. You know Tom was always the best hand we had at persuading witnesses in Union cases to go home to see their mothers." "How did you scare that jackaroo, Tom?" I asked. "Tell you about it some other time," said Tom.
And then again Baldy would talk, just loud enough for Bogan to overhear, and swear that he'd sooner have Bogan, blind as he was, than half a dozen scientific jackaroo experts with all their eyes about them.
Chukkers was aware of it; so were the tens of thousands watching; so were his stable-mates. As Chukkers crossed to the rails Jackaroo, who lay in front on the inside, drew away to let the favourite up under his lee. Flibberty-gibbet, on the other hand, the second Dewhurst horse, had been bumped at the first fence, and pecked heavily on landing.
Looking back, I think there was a bit of romance about it: Mary singing under the vines to amuse a Jackaroo dude, and a coward going down to the river in the moonlight to fight for her. It was very quiet in the little moonlit flat by the river. We took off our coats and were ready. There was no swearing or barracking.
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