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He gave an account to a friend of the suppression of a black rogue, a faithful report of which is presented as an example of unbowdlerised pidgin English. George "You bin hear about Mr Limsee have fight? My word, he fight proper; close up killed. We three fella ride about. Cap'n big strong boy that me and Mr Limsee. Wild boy boy from outside; Myall beggar that fella longa gully. Hit Mr Limsee.
'And look here, Harry, you can tell them at the Myall Creek out-station as you go by, to have two good horses ready in the yard for me. I'm off to Tunumburra to put the police on to those devils straight away. 'All right, Boss. You'll find it will take some tall calculatin' though. Them Unionists are getting too strong for the police to tackle.
"The Clonourry mail, which has been delayed by floods, brings news of a terrible massacre perpetrated by the ootlaw black ex-troopers Sandy and Daylight. A party of five miners who were camped at a lagoon near Dry Creek were surprised and murdered in their sleep by the two outlaws and a number of myall blacks. The bodies were found by the mail man.
Cumshaw laughed softly, but Moira bit her lip, though she made no reply to what I had said. "Now, while we're talking about it," I ran on, "I just want to impress on you the fact that we aren't going off into the bush not the kind of bush that you read about in books, where it's all scrub and myall blacks and things like that. Most of the time we'll be within coo-ee of civilisation.
And in Australia neither my father nor I had visited any church. I gathered gradually that my father had once met and chatted with Father O'Malley for a few minutes in Werrina, learning in that time of the reverend father's supervisory connection with St. Peter's Orphanage at Myall Creek, eleven miles down the coast.
Some little inherited difference held me back, perhaps. I wonder! At all events, the thing was dropped between us for the time; and, before he left, Ted promised he would tackle a bit of work a Myall Creek farmer had offered him to clear a bush paddock of burrajong fern, which had poisoned some cattle. Thus, he would be able to come and see me again on the following Sunday.
Peter's, like my fellows there, however long I might be condemned to live in the place. During the next three days I was greatly depressed by the fact that I never caught a glimpse of the artist anywhere. In fact, it was said that he had gone away from Myall Creek altogether.
In the summer-time there were sharks in Myall Creek, but I had never seen them there in the spring. It was, I think, still somewhere short of midnight when I stepped quietly out of the low window of the room I shared with seven other orphans. My outfit consisted of a comparatively whole pair of trousers not those immortalised in Mr.
For the easy profanity, unconscious obscenity, and august slang of the back country scented the air like myall; whilst the aggregate repertory of bonâ fide anecdote and reminiscence was something worth while.
Then he added that they had better take the saddles off the horses, short-hobble them, and let them feed. "No, boss, they are camped now, 'bout a mile or two mile farther up creek. We can't take horses there country too rough, and myall blackfellow can smell horse long way off all same horse or bullock can smell myall blackfellow long way off."
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