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Updated: May 23, 2025
A shout from Moongarr Bill cut short the monotonous corroboree tune which the two black boys had been singing at their camp some little distance away. 'My word, I believe YARRAMAN* break him hobble! At which the boys scampered off through the grass, and presently came the cracking of a stock whip among the trees.
'Fire my run spoil my cattle sales get hold of my stockmen....But I'm not so badly off as my "sheep" neighbours at Breeza Downs. They've got to have their shearing done.... Though I've had a lot of bother to-day, his face became gloomy, 'and I foresee more ahead. She asked what other sort of trouble. 'Why! there's been no rain at Moongarr since I left it five months ago.
Then the blending and the cooling of it pouring the beverage from one quart pot into another, and finally into the pannikins ready for the drinking. Proudly, round the rock-flank of the hummock, Moongarr Bill brought fried steak and potatoes steaming in a clean tin dish and done to a turn, then went to cook more for himself at his own camp. They ate off the bark plates.
There was joy, glory to Lady Bridget in this playing of the squaw and fending for her man, ceasing to be the goddess and becoming the primal woman. And the sports, and songs, and stories by the camp fire! Moongarr Bill's yarns, Colin's exploring tales, Wombo's and Cudgee's dances and corroboree-tunes strange, weird music that had a fascination for Lady Bridget.
Harris dismounted, tied Wombo's horse securely to the veranda post and then made his statement which coincided with Bridget's idea of what had happened. It was too late to push on to Tunumburra. He proposed to lock up his prisoner at Moongarr for the night. Could he have the hide-house?
Apparently, in Moongarr Bill's estimation, its only reason for existence lay in the fact that it had an office under the jurisdiction of the Warden of Goldfields, for the proclamation of new goldfields, and the obtaining of Miner's Rights. Moongarr Bill's epistolary style was bald in its directness. Dear Sir he began:
Not a drop of rain had fallen up to now on the station for nearly nine months. YOU know what that means on the top of two dry seasons. As soon as I was fit, we rode over the run inspecting I and Ninnis and Moongarr Bill. There's a lot of riding over one thousand square miles, and we didn't get our inspection done quickly.
'An extraordinary thing ? What was it? he said in the same breathless, broken way. 'It was Mr Ninnis. He was there, standing on the platform just off his droving trip he was going to take the next train to Leuraville. If I had stayed there as Captain Halliwell wanted me to, I should have missed him. He'd got a letter from Moongarr Bill Oh, I know all about that.
The details of Moongarr head-station became familiar enough later to its new mistress. Besides the dwelling houses were various huts and outbuildings. The stock-yards lay on a piece of level ground behind at the side of the gully, and between the yards and the House stood a small slab and bark cottage the Bachelors' Quarters.
I'm just waiting on to get Moongarr Bill's report of the country up north how it stands the drought, and what the chances are for pushing out. As for the gold find well, I'm not banking on that. As soon as I hear or if I don't hear in the course of the next two or three weeks I shall pull up stakes, and burn all my personal belongings, except what a pair of saddle bags will carry.
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