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What is he singing? Oh, come! that is overdoing it, Jacky! Why, Jem! he is telling them he killed you on the spot." "I'll punch his head!" "No! take it easy," said Robinson; "he is a poet; this is what they call poetical license." "Lie without sense, I call it when here is the man." "Ting tong! ting tong tong! I slew him he fell by the Wurra-Gurra River. I slew him! ting tong! he fell ting tong!
By the Wurra-Gurra River ting ting tong!" This line Jacky repeated at least forty times; but he evaded monotony by the following simple contrivance: "I slew him; he fell by the Wurra-Gurra River ting tong! I slew him; he fell, by the Wurra-Gurra River, I slew him; he fell, by the Wurra-Gurra River," with similar changes, and then back again.
George had picked up some of the native language, and he explained to the other that Jacky was singing about some great battle, near the Wurra-Gurra River. "The Wurra-Gurra! why, that is where we first found gold." "Why of course it is! and yes! I thought so." "Thought what?" "It is our battle he is describing." "Which of 'em? we live in hot water." "The one before Jem was our friend.
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