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Updated: June 13, 2025
They were ready to brag of their valor, and to put their boasts to the test. They were "half horse, half alligator," according to their own favorite expression, equally prepared with knife or pistol, fist, or the trained thumb that gouged out an antagonist's eye, unless he speedily called for mercy. "I'm a Salt River roarer!" bawled one in the presence of a foreign diarist.
He went away into the bush, where he has been a dreaded devil ever since; for if he touches a man's shadow even, that man will itch all over and nothing can cure him of it. He haunts Boorah grounds. Next Byamee made a stone bull roarer sort of thing, but this was too heavy to make the noise he wanted.
He was at his wits' end, although you must be clever if you can perceive the wits' end of a punster. "That's Morning Star," said he. "Now do you know why I call her Morning Star?" I answered truthfully I did not. "Why," he said, with a merry laugh, "because she's a roarer." "What a pity!" I exclaimed. "But I don't wonder at it if she has to carry you and your jokes very far."
Here he paused, but I held my peace and he continued, "Here's you now, you that was so mighty and fierce aye, a very hell-fire roarer here's that same you a-hanging here a very helpless, pitiful fool, shipmate, and thirsty 'twould seem " Here I groaned again. "And one not over sweet!" says he, stopping his nose. Hereupon I cursed him, though faintly, and he comes a step nearer.
You call him lazy; you would not think him lazy if you were in a ring with him: he is a proper man with his hands; Jasper is going to back him for twenty pounds against Slammocks of the Chong gav, the brother of Roarer and Bell-metal, he says he has no doubt that he will win." "Well, if you like him, I, of course, can have no objection. Have you been long married?"
'Great Cæsar! that was a roarer! Dick said, as the peal of thunder which had so frightened Ann Eliza burst over their heads, and, echoing through the woods, went bellowing off in the direction of the river, 'That's a stunner! but I rather like it, and like being here, too, with you, if you don't mind it.
P'raps he cleared off, handsome, with a heap of dollars; p'raps he wasn't worth a cent. P'raps he was a loafin' rowdy; p'raps a ring-tailed roarer. Now! 'All your doing, Mark! said Martin. 'P'raps, pursued the agent, 'them ain't plants of Eden's raising. No! P'raps that desk and stool ain't made from Eden lumber. No! P'raps no end of squatters ain't gone out there. No!
We are not acquainted with the general appearance of a "ring-tailed roarer;" in fact, we have grave doubts as to whether such an animal exists at all; but if it does, and is particularly wild, dishevelled, and fierce in deportment, there is no doubt whatever that when Mr Kennedy applied the name to his hopeful son, the application was singularly powerful and appropriate.
In North and South America the bull roarer, on the other hand, is used, not to avert, but magically to produce thunder and lightning. Among the Kaitish thunder is caused by the churinga of their "sky dweller," Atnatu. Wherever the toy is used for a superstitious purpose, it is, so far, churinga, and, so far, modern Aberdeenshire had the same churinga irula as the Arunta.
I never heard but one worse roarer in my life, and that was a roan: it belonged to Pegwell, the corn-factor; he used to drive him in his gig seven years ago, and he wanted me to take him, but I said, 'Thank you, Peg, I don't deal in wind-instruments. That was what I said. It went the round of the country, that joke did. But, what the hell! the horse was a penny trumpet to that roarer of yours."
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