rock-wallaby

Updated: May 28, 2025

But it's all up now; there's no get away this time; and I, Dick Marston, as strong as a bullock, as active as a rock-wallaby, chock-full of life and spirits and health, have been tried for bush-ranging robbery under arms they call it and though the blood runs through my veins like the water in the mountain creeks, and every bit of bone and sinew is as sound as the day I was born, I must die on the gallows this day month.

Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields