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Firing over their heads had no effect, nor threats of a bayonet charge, but when two Australian bushmen began plying stockwhips, those niggers made themselves scarcer than mice on the smell of a cat. As a good manipulator of the stockwhip can pull the cork from a bottle, maybe these plotters were afraid of having their guilty secrets picked from them.
"Oh, certainly, sir," replied the man. "Oh, c'ert'nly! Why c'ert'nly? What do you know about it?" "Oh, certainly not, sir," replied the man. "If I had stockwhip here I'd make you hic skip! Whar's brandy?" "Here, Mr. Richard." "Have some! Good brandy! Send for servantsh and have dance. D'you dance, Tomkins?" "No, Mr. Richard." "Then you shall dance now, Tomkins.
For he could so plainly recognize his own influence, and the incongruity of it against the gentle, colourless background of the tale was in truth amusing. A more ludicrous effect could hardly have been obtained, if Miss Bibby herself, clad in the limp lavender muslin, had been encountered lashing about with a stockwhip or hurling blue metal wildly in all directions.
"Well," said Mitchell, "I used to have a suspicion once that I had a drop of blue blood in me somewhere, and it worried me a lot; but I asked my old mother about it one day, and she scalded me God bless her! and father chased me with a stockwhip, so I gave up making inquiries." "You'll join the bloomin' Capitalists next," sneered One-eyed Bogan. "I wish I could, Bogan," said Mitchell.
"Dad slipped off his horse gently. He made a sign to us to keep quiet and went across the yard, and we saw him shake the lash of his stockwhip loose. You can just fancy how Norah and I were dancing with joy! "Dad was just near the verandah when we saw the door give. Poor old Brownie was getting the worst of it.
"To wheel the wild scrub cattle at the yard With a running fire of stockwhip and a fiery run of hoofs." Pip could hardly sleep one night, a month after their arrival, for thinking of the cattle drafting that was on the programme for the morrow. He had been casting about for some fresh occupation, far he was a boy to whom variety was the salt of life.
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.
Once I was riding with my husband up a lovely gulley, when we heard the crack of a stockwhip, sounding strangely through the deep eternal silence of a New Zealand valley, and a turn of the track showed us a heavy, timber-laden bullock-waggon labouring slowly along.
A special nail held Jim's own stockwhip, to which Norah always attended after he had gone away, lest the supple thong should become harsh through disuse.
He said he would have to borrow a whip from someone, to "dost der yacket" of the impracticable animal that remained in the mob. Relevantly, one of the Chows had a stockwhip, the handle of which represented about six months' untiring work on a well-selected piece of myall.
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