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Updated: June 28, 2025
We were circling round for miles, without making any headway; and so the time passed till about three in the afternoon. Then up comes Spanker, with his hat lost, and his face cut and bleeding from the scrub, and his horses in a white lather, and a black lubra sitting in the back of the buggy, and the Mulppa stock-keeper tearing along in front, giving him our tracks.
However," added Thompson, with sublime lowliness of manner, "that's what I meant by saying that, in some cases, a person's all the better for being uncivilised. You see, we were nowhere beside Bob, and Bob was nowhere beside the old lubra." "Had you much of a yarn with the poor fellow when you met him?" I asked.
It was impossible to carry her off by force, so two days were spent in shrill ear-splitting arguments the threads of Nellie's argument being that Bertie could easily "catch nuzzer lubra," and that the missus "must have one good fellow lubra on the staff."
And that was within a hundred yards of the spot I had made-for after hearing the first call. I knew it by three or four tall pines, among a mass of pine scrub. However, the lubra turned off at an angle to the right, and run the track not an hour old toward where we had heard the second call.
In the morning there was a free fight in camp between the staff and some of the camp lubras, the rejected, led by Jimmy's lubra another Nellie declaring the Maluka had meant two different lubras each day. Again there was much ear-splitting argument, but finally a compromise was agreed on. Two lubras were to sit down permanently, while as many as wished might help with the washing and watering.
It would appear that Sullivan and Turpin when out one day, during my absence, after the cattle, saw a native and his lubra crossing the plains to the eastward, with some stones for grinding their grass seed, it being their harvest time.
Inch by inch Stobart worked his way nearer, till he heard the words and saw what the native doctor was doing. There was a small pointed bone, called an irna, about eight inches long, sticking upright in the sand. At one end was a knob of hardened gum from spinifex grass, and a long string made of the hair of a lubra was attached to it.
"By-and-by, 'Picaninny plenty tumble down. It was pitiful; but we knew that we were close on her at last. By this time, of course, she had been out for seventy-two hours. "I stuck to the track, with the lubra and Bob. We could hear some of the chaps coo-eeing now and again, and calling 'Mary!" "Bad line bad line," muttered Saunders impatiently.
And there had been an old lubra and a young one camped within a mile of the station, and an old fellow and his lubra near one of the boundary men's places; but they all happened to have shifted; and no one had the slightest idea where they could be found. However, in a sense, everyone was after them.
Everyone there had heard the call, or fancied they had; but it was out to their right not in front. Of course, the lubra would n't leave the track, nor Bob, nor the chap with the bell; but everyone else was gone Dan among the rest. The lubra said something to Bob. "'Picaninny tumble down here again, says Bob. 'Getting very weak on her feet.
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