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Updated: May 20, 2025
It is a brave sight and fortifying to see a Supply Column winding in and out between the poplars on the perilously arched pavé of the long sinuous roads, each wagon keeping its distance, like battleships in line, and every one of them boasting a good Christian name chalked up on the tail-board.
I'll ride the blanky horse for a fiver, and I'll feel the blanky quids in my pocket before I get on. Meanwhile the coach had dashed up to the door of the shanty. There were about twenty passengers aboard inside, on the box-seat, on the tail-board, and hanging on to the roof most of them Sydney men going up to the Mudgee races.
If either could have flown away or bounded off finally at that moment, they would have done so with no more concern for preliminary detail than a bird or squirrel. The wagon rolled steadily on. The boy could see that one of the teamsters had climbed up on the tail-board of the preceding vehicle. The other seemed to be walking in a dusty sleep. "Kla'uns," said the girl.
The jolting began again, more furiously than ever, as the stranger drew a long breath. He waited till he judged they must be out of sight, and then began to stir beneath his load of weed. "Keep quiet," said Zeb; "you shall get out as soon as we're up the hill." The cart began to move more slowly, and tilted back with a slant that sent the stranger's heels against the tail-board.
For a fairly sensible, hard-headed fellow it was pretty quick work, I acknowledge; but let any man have seven years of Western life without seeing a woman worth speaking of, and then meet Miss Cullen, and if he didn't do as I did, I wouldn't trust him on the tail-board of a locomotive, for I should put him down as defective both in eyesight and in intellect.
We stared after them down the road; watching the lantern on the tail-board of the cart diminish; watching it dim and dwindle to a point of gray; listening until the hoof-beats of the heavy Norman grew fainter than the rustle of the branch that rose above the wall beside us.
A party of these pounced down on the farm, caught young Taylor and another of the clerks, and after reaching Florence, Major Taylor heard of the capture of his son, and learned that when last seen he was stripped of his hat and coat, was tied to the tail-board of a wagon, and driven rapidly to the north of the road we had traveled. The major appealed to me to do something for his rescue.
The three of us hung on the tail-board, and rode to the bottom of the Calle de Conquistador, where we exchanged to the most likely-looking vehicle we could see. "You saw that carriage that just rushed by down towards the harbour?" "Sí, señor," grinned the driver. "Then after it like blue hades, and there's a hundred pesetas for you when we're alongside." "Ah, señores, muchos grac "
There would be room on the top of the boxes they did not reach within two feet of the tilt. Should he ask for a lift, when the carter came out of the "Marquis"? Or should he, if he could, climb up and hide on the boxes and take his chance of discovery on the lift? He laid a hand on the tail-board. "Hi, Dickie!" said a voice surprisingly in his ear; "that you?"
A kind of lengthened tail-board is let down at the end of each wagon and supported by props. All the men of an "outfit" that is, those banded to work together and share the use of one wagon gather about this rude table and devour the meal, as they stand, with the lion's appetite which only a wholly out-door life can give.
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