pad-oo-byer

Updated: April 30, 2025

Gifts of birds'-nests, eggs, ferns, orchids in flower, a cassowary chick, neat dilly-bags, gay with crude Pigments, were brought to the house with messages such as this: "That fella 'Pad-oo-byer' he bin gib'em alonga 'Ky-ee-rah." The gifts were tearfully repudiated.

E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield - Tropic Days