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He had made himself familiar with all the advantages the garden and orchard offered a hunted man ere he had been a week at Boobyalla. Ryder remained in this hiding-place for some time. He heard the thunder of Galah's hoofs and the cries of the troopers. Yarra had timed his break from cover to a second.
Ryder, knowing the susceptibilities of the race, to gratify the boy laughed too. 'Yarra plenty clever, he said. 'My word! Yarra follow track all away topside Shepherd's Scrub. Go this way, that way, make much plurry humbug. Say: "This feller gone lame, limp it bad. Some time he creep by scrub, lie down." Trooper go search it scrub all day, nex' day, nex' day.
The only house between Dandenong and Melbourne was once called the South Yarra Pound, kept by Mrs. Atkinson. It was near Caulfield, on the Melbourne side of "No-good-damper swamp." Some blackfellows had been poisoned there by a settler who wanted to get rid of them. He gave them a damper with arsenic in it, and when dying they said, "No good, damper."
Yarra, who had stolen near to Ryder's body, crouched upon the rock, staring intently at the face of his friend. Presently Jim noticed that Lucy was lying inert, and he lifted her to the pool and bathed her forehead with the cool water. Yarra brought a pannikin and a bottle containing brandy from the cave, and Jim poured a little of the spirit between the girl's lips.
I should think you had, observed Mr Rolleston, with a grin, 'it was a nine days' wonder; but here's your friend, introduce me, pray, as Vandeloup came up. Kitty did so, and Felix improved the occasion. 'Knew you by sight, he said, shaking hands with Gaston, 'but it's a case of we never speak as we pass by, and all that sort of thing come and look me up, hospitably, 'South Yarra.
You are generous you do not try to make him appear contemptible because of his afflictions, as some of the others have done. You are gentle I see it in your bearing towards the little ones. You are kind, and Yarra is devoted to you. 'And yet I swear there are no wings under my coat.
Tarlac exclaimed but shock almost instantly turned to understanding. "Daria, you should have told me!" "And make your First Sharing a thing of duty instead of joy? No, es'ruhar. That would have been wrong for you, and for our ka'esten. You deserve better of the clan." Yarra smiled at them, and spoke to Steve.
He could write and talk everlastingly, but he had not the 'robur' and 'as triplex' suitable for a sea-robber. Sea-sickness nearly killed him, so he stayed behind while the other adventurers went and laid the foundation. They first examined the shores of Western Port, then went to Port Philip Bay and entered the River Yarra.
Keladon has obviously the same sense as the Gaelic Altgarbh, "the rough and brawling stream." Iardanus is also a stream in Crete, and Mr. Leaf thinks it Semitic "Yarden, from yarad to flow"; but the Semites did not give the Yar to the Yarrow nor to the Australian Yarra Yarra. While the correct geography may, on this showing, be that of Homer, we cannot give up Homer's claim to Nestor's speech.
It was not till 1835 that John Batman pushed up the river Yarra, found the site of the present city of Melbourne, and said, "This will be the place for a village!"
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