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"Twenty to thirty men, counting the boundary riders and stockmen at different parts of the place; and double that number at shearing or drafting times, not to mention daily sundowners it's like feeding an army, my dears," she said; "and then, you see, I had to make preparations for all of you Bunty especially." Her little grey eyes twinkled merrily as she looked at that small youth.
There were other residents in the township besides these two; men who came along the road from the east to the west, some with business and some in search for it; some with a record they wanted to leave behind, and some with an empty past they hoped to turn into a well-filled future in the mighty plains of the rolling lands of the virgin western country; men of all qualities and shades of vice and virtue; stockmen, mailmen, and drovers; stray gold-seekers, fossickers, or prospectors; swagsmen who were bonâ-fide bushmen, and swagsmen who, as sundowners, only arrived at a station or a township too late in the day to be given work, but not too late to participate in the open hospitality of the bush; shepherds, selectors seeking land, and timber-getters moving on to the scrubs of the table-land beyond the creek; but men, always men, who brought the population of the township up to tens, but never yet to hundreds, and who in a few days had gone further west mostly and whose places were taken by others.
"That depends. Sundowners are as uncertain as they are unknown quantities. After shearing-time they're thickest; in the dead of summer fewest. This is the dead of summer," and, for the hundredth time in our travel, Glenn shook his head sadly. Sadness was ill-suited to his burly form and bronzed face, but it was there. He had some trouble, I thought, deeper than drought.
Sundowners and that lot sleep there; there's always some flour and tea in a hammock, under the roof, and there they are with a pub of their own. It's a fashion we have in Australia." "It seems all right, Glenn," I said with admiration. "It's surer than Elijah's ravens." "It saves us from their prowling about the barracks, and camping on the front veranda." "How many do you have of a week?"
"That depends. Sundowners are as uncertain as they are unknown quantities. After shearing-time they're thickest; in the dead of summer fewest. This is the dead of summer," and, for the hundredth time in our travel, Glenn shook his head sadly. Sadness was ill-suited to his burly form and bronzed face, but it was there. He had some trouble, I thought, deeper than drought.
The bushman is a real man under all circumstances, having no awe of authority, no hesitation in speaking his mind, but a great reverence for women and a real respect for a religion that does not savor of cant. Billabong a water-hole in a dry river-course. Robert W. Service. Sundowners tramps who arrive at a ranch at sundown expecting to be put up for the night. On the wallaby on the tramp.
And any broken-down actors that came along could get up a play if they liked it would brighten up things and help elevate the bullock-drivers and sundowners. I'd have a stage fixed up and a bit of scenery. I'd do all I could to attract shearers to the place after shearing, and keep them from rushing to the next shanty with their cheques, or down to Sydney, to be cleaned out by barmaids.
"A Swagman's Rest?" "Yes. Right here on this very God-forsaken spot. I'd build a Swagman's Rest and call it the Lost Souls' Hotel, or the Sundowners' Arms, or the Half-way House to , or some such name that would take the bushmen's fancy.
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