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Updated: May 25, 2025
I've had my tucker stolen again and again, several times by birds, twice by swaggies, and once by a couple of black fellows pilgrimaging through the bush I don't know whither.
Never a night but we have the house full of agents or travellers of one sort or another, and there are often a dozen swaggies in the one day. Harold Beecham is my favourite of all the men hereaway. He is delightfully big and quiet. He isn't good-looking, but I like his face. I am scribbling at the rate Of 365 miles an hour, and don't care a jot whether it is good writing or not.
Thefts and annoyances of the above description were credited to the "swaggies" who infested the roads, and had a very bad name down that way; so the teacher loaded his gun, and told August to rouse him at once, if she heard a sound in the night. She said she would; but a heavy-weight "swaggie" could have come in and sat on her and had a smoke without waking her.
There was a very good-looking servant girl waitin' on 'em, and she was all smiles laughin', and jokin', and chyackin', and barrickin' with 'em like anything. I thought a damp expression seemed to pass across her face when me and my mate sat down, but she served us and said nothing we was only two dusty swaggies, you see.
Then another said: "Ow-w! Two old swaggies. He! he! he!" I glanced at Mitchell to see if he was hit, and caught his head down; but he pulled himself up and pretended to hitch his swag into an easier position. About a hundred yards further on he gave me a side look and said: "Did that touch you, Harry" "No," I said, and I laughed.
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