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"True; but without the present tax, how can government support a police force, and send gold to the cities under the escort of soldiers? How can the hospitals at Sydney and Melbourne, always filled with disabled miners, be kept open, and how can the roads be kept clear of bushrangers? The tax is not unreasonable per month, and yet through its collection see how much government is enabled to do?
They formed a new settlement on the Derwent, about fifteen miles above Hobart Town, at a place which they called "New Norfolk," in affectionate memory of their former island home. Bushranging.# About this time the colony began to be greatly annoyed by bushrangers.
Wright vainly urged us to remain with him for a week, and even offered the inducement of a formidable expedition against the bushrangers in the vicinity of Mount Tarrengower; but we turned deaf ears to the allurements, and promised at some future day to visit him, when our time would not be limited.
The loneliness of our location, and the uncertainty of meeting with friends in that part of the country, the frequent robberies that had of late been committed, and the daring of the bushrangers, were all ample cause for vigilance on our part; and perhaps we suspected that the dog was used by some gang to discover the presence of travellers, and expedite the work of pillage.
Wright, "or you'll alarm the bushrangers." "And do you intend that I shall strangle myself for the purpose of letting the blackguards git kilt?" remonstrated the Hibernian; "I've swallowed a gallon of the dirty water already, and it's cowld on my stomach. Help me out, will ye?"
So it happened that while these terrible scenes were enacting within ten miles of them, down, in fact, to about one o'clock in the day when the bushrangers were overtaken and punished, Mary and her cousin sat totally unconscious of what was going on.
We have undergone almost starvation we have had bushrangers howling at our heels and ready to kill all who fell behind while on the march we have been nearly dead for the want of water we have been surrounded by natives wielding poisoned spears, and you know that a prick from them is death we have enjoyed good and bad fortune together, have we not?" "We have," replied the men, with one accord.
It was stronger than this, and yet you know what he did with them, only kept one small one for hanging, as he elegantly expressed it." "But I ain't talking of bushrangers," said Sam. "I mean such fellows as the Americans in the War of Independence. See what a dance they led our troops with their bushfighting." "I wonder if there will ever be a War of Independence here," said Alice.
"Glory to God! we'll lick thunder out of all the bloody bushrangers that iver dared to show their homely faces this side of the Loddon. I'm off;" and Mike, who feared that the order for his going would be revoked, snatched a long spear that stood in the entry, and rushed out of the house hatless and shoeless, and full of fight. "Take good care of the house, Jackson," Mr.
And where are Edith and Pierce?" "There is nothing now to be alarmed about, mother," I answered. "The bushrangers have gone away, and Edith and Pierce are probably hiding somewhere." "Oh! go and look for them," she said, "and bring them here at once. I am afraid that those terrible men have carried them off." "Not at all likely, mother," I said.
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