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But she knew a lot about the Bush, and chatted away, and asked questions about the trip, and soon put me at my ease. You see, for the last year or two I'd taken my tucker in my hands, hunk of damper and meat and a clasp-knife mostly, sitting on my heel in the dust, or on a log or a tucker-box.
He was thin, sandy-haired, and wiry, about forty-five, with restless hands, and a cowed, half-sullen expression a drinker of strong drinks of the kind manufactured at the shanties, corrosive liquids that ate the souls out of men in quick order. Having disposed of the bullocks, the tinkling of whose bells was a foreign note in the night, two others came to the fire, carrying the tucker-box.
My friends drained their pannikins; Thompson threw his at the tucker-box, and Cooper was just aiming his, when Willoughby, who had shared the frosted mutton, interposed "If you please, Cooper." "Can't see much worse," mused Thompson. "Hold on till he gits old." "People seem to think Gawd made these here colonies for a rubbage-heap," said Bum. "That's the English idear of"
"An' I'm as bad off as him; an' there ain't a whimper out o' me." "I'll bring a drink for you both," said I, rising and taking two pannikins from the lid of the tucker-box. "I would n't do it only that I'm famishing, myself; and I'm tired of waiting for some one else to give in."
I threw down bags and the blankets and 'possum rug against the wheel to make a camp for Jim and the cattle-pup, and got a gin-case we used for a tucker-box, the frying-pan and billy down, and made a good fire at a log close handy, and soon everything was comfortable. Ryan's Crossing was a grand camp.
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