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Updated: May 23, 2025
Anyway, Moongarr Bill is a match for them.... And you'll just mind the lot of you that it's my orders to stockwhip blacks off the place, and that if any Unionist delegates show their faces through the sliprails they're not allowed to stop five minutes inside the paddock fence.
That drear spectre of drought hung over the Never-Never Land. Lady Bridget stood by the railing of the veranda at Moongarr, looking out for two expected arrivals at the head-station that of her husband, who had been camping out after cattle and of the mailman colloquially, Harry the Blower who this week was to bring an English mail.
And Moongarr Bill with the horses' reins over his arm, and the two black-boys agape, beady eyes twinkling, white teeth glistening, emitting their queer guttural clicks of approbation, and an occasional 'My word! Bujeri you, Lathy-chap, the nearest they could get to Moongarr Bill's accepted form of address.
I don't know whether it is that bullocks are more profane than most animals, but it's certain sure that you can't get them to move without swearing at them. Then, as she said, half crying, half laughing, 'I see. So this is my baptism into the Bush! You should have taught me the vocabulary, Colin, first. 'Don't be too hard on me. You won't have this kind of thing at Moongarr.
I don't even know what Bachelors' Quarters mean. Have you an army of Bachelors at Moongarr, and what do they do when they're at home? He laughed. 'It's a shanty I put up for the new-chums when I've got any and for the gentlemen-sun-downers that come along, and visitors that I don't want to be bothered with at the House.
She could see nothing human from the veranda except the blue-smocked figure of Fo Wung, the Chinaman, at work in his vegetable garden by the lagoon. There was one large water-hole and a succession of small ones, connected by water-courses, now dry, and meandering from a gully, which on the eastern side broke the hill against which Moongarr head-station was built.
But how's that for a Bushman's wife. You'll see lots of cattle up at Moongarr. Moongarr was the name off his station which was to be her future home. 'I hate cows. Once I was charged by a wild cow and I've been afraid of them ever since. 'That isn't a cow. It's Mickey Field's poley-tailed bullock being shunted off to the Boiling-Down Works on Shark Island, said a local man.
'Why is it so dark and the heat so stifling? she asked. 'These damned Unionists have fired the only good pasture left on Moongarr. It's been burning since two o'clock this morning. I sent the men out. Now I'm going myself to save what I can. He left the room abruptly. In a minute or two she heard him outside calling 'Cudgee... Harris' and then giving the order to saddle up.
'It's all right, Moongarr Bill's after them, said McKeith, as his bride released herself from his arms. 'But if you don't mind darling. I'd better just see if anything has started the beasts. Lady Bridget watched him disappear round the knoll.
The quick CLOP-CLOP of a four horse team and a clatter of tin billys and pannikins as Lady Bridget presently discovered slung upon the back rail of an American buggy sounded up the street. 'There's the Boss, said Moongarr Bill. 'Look alive, with that packhorse, Wombo.
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