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Updated: October 12, 2025
But where was the date-stick basket? Where was the last of the food? He tried to think. He could remember nothing. But reason told him they must have eaten the last of the food and thrown the basket away. His shoulders felt strangely light. What was this? The water-bag was gone, too? But that did not matter. There had been only a little of that chemicalized water left, anyhow.
"Isn't it lovely! I can't talk, my lips are so dry." Harrington dashed outside to the verandah filled a glass from the canvas water-bag hanging from a beam overhead, and gave it to the exhausted girl. "Now don't you attempt to speak for five minutes." "No, I won't," she said, with a faint smile, as she drank off the cold water and then at once began to tell him of her discovery.
Then, whilst helping myself to a drink from the water-bag under the rear of Thompson's wagon, and filling the pannikins for my friends, I couldn't possibly avoid overhearing the conversation which sprang into life the moment my back was turned "My lord Billy-be-damd," remarked Mosey. Bright pair, them two." "Would n't trust him as fur's I could sling him," said Dixon.
The remainder of the sheep from the run were travelling for grass and water on the coast near Townsville. As a compliment, I was allowed to replenish my water-bag, and to obtain one drink for each of my two horses. My next camp was off the road on East Darr Station, where a mob of kanakas were cutting down scrub for fencing. When I reached Muttaburra, I found the hotel to be a grass hut.
I noticed that the younger black left the camp with a bit of a bundle under his shirt and a canvas water-bag; I and some of the others watched whither he went, and to our surprise we found that he was taking food and water to the other two boys, who should have been away after the horses, but were quietly encamped under a big bush within a quarter of a mile of us and had never been after the horses at all.
As McKeith mixed a liberal allowance of whisky with water from the water-bag and handed it to the mailman, he asked curtly: 'This isn't one of your blowing yarns, Harry? You're positive about the fact? 'Saw the thing with my own eyes, Boss. As fine a team as ever I'd wish to own, lying with their throats cut, and the trees black with crows all round.
The uniform 'e wore Was nothin' much before, An' rather less than 'arf o' that be'ind, For a piece o' twisty rag An' a goatskin water-bag Was all the field-equipment 'e could find. It was "Din! Din! Din! You 'eathen, where the mischief 'ave you been? 'E would dot an' carry one Till the longest day was done; An' 'e didn't seem to know the use o' fear.
No sign of a patch, or an attempt at mending anywhere about his clothes, and that is a bad sign; when a swagman leaves off mending or patching his garments, his case is about hopeless. The Exception's swag consists of the aforesaid bit of blanket rolled up and tied with pieces of rag. He has no water-bag; carries his water in a billy; and how he manages without a bag is known only to himself.
During the course of the meal, Endicott tried to dissuade the girl from her purpose of accompanying him on his search for Tex and the half-breed. But she would have it no other way, and finally, perforce, he consented. Leaving her to pack up some food, Endicott filled the water-bag that hung on the wall and, proceeding to the corral, saddled three of the horses.
Rising, she readjusted the strap of the empty water-bag over her shoulder and the loose cartridge-belt at her hip, then set her dusty feet down the slope. Day died lingeringly. The sun gradually lost its cruelty, but a partial relief from the heat merely emphasized the traveler's thirst and muscular distress. Onward she plodded, using her eyes as carefully as she knew how.
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