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Updated: June 1, 2025
'YUCKE*! Poor fellow, Oola! Wombo pulled her forward. A comely half-caste who, as a child, had been partially civilised by a stockman's wife on one of the Leura out-stations, but who had, later, gone back to her tribe and married a Myall, as the wild blacks are called.
Fact is, our Labour War is only just beginning; and I can tell you, Sir, that before a year is out the so-called bloated capitalist and the sheep and cattle station owner will sing either pretty big or very small. 'I don't think it will be very small on MY station, murmured McKeith. 'But it's quite true about the Labour War. They're organising, as they call it, already all along the Leura.
She drew humorous pictures of the comic shifts, the almost tragic hardships of life on the Leura how she had been left servantless until Ninnis had got up Maggie from the Lower Leura when the Chinamen decamped during the gold rush.
I don't know anything about the rights and wrongs of your labour question, but I confess that, speaking broadly, my sympathies are usually rather with Labour than with Capital. 'Capital! echoed McKeith derisively. 'It's blithering irony to talk of us Leura squatters as representing capital.
'Mrs McKeith or is it Lady McKeith I should say I haven't got the hang of the name if you'll pardon me Mr McKeith sent me on to say that he'll be here with the buggy in a minute or two.... I'm Moongarr Bill.... Glad to welcome you up the Leura, ma'am, though I expect things seem a bit rough to you straight out from England and not knowing the Bush.
'The Upper Leura is no place for the sort of wife I want, he returned shortly. 'I don't see that. It isn't as if you were going to stop there always. When you're rich enough you can put on a manager. You've got an enormous piece of pretty good country, haven't you?
'And is Luke Tallant coming at the head of them, in official uniform, to read the Riot Act? if there is a Riot Act in Australia. I'd like to see Luke maintaining the supremacy of the British Crown on the Leura. He looked up at her in vague rebuke of her levity, and there was suppressed tenderness in his eyes, notwithstanding his preoccupation with his own troubles. 'No, no.
Then, taking fright in a second, all leaped up, long back legs stretched, tails in air, and, in a few ungainly bounds they were lost to sight among the gum trees. Early in the afternoon the train reached the temporary Terminus, for the line was being carried on by degrees through the Leura district.
'Oh then after they'd murdered a white man or two, the rest of us whites there wasn't more than a handful of us at that time up on the Leura banded together and drove them off into the back country. We had a dangerous job with those Blacks until King Mograbar was shot down. 'King Mograbar! How cruelly unjust. It was his country you were STEALING. She accentuated the last word with bitter scorn.
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