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'Might as well put in a bit of work, he said. 'Hold hard, replied Dick, 'Smoke-ho, old man. What's goin' on on top? 'Whips! They had a meetin' about youse last night Jo, an' Rogers, an' my dad, an' ole Tinribs, an' the rest. They're all after you. You're fairly in fer it. Dick's face became radiant with magnificent ideas. 'What! You don't mean they're goin' t' form a band t' capture us?
Dick's contempt for the man who could so misuse his high office was very fine indeed. 'That's the sorter thing Tinribs does, said the boy. 'If I yell after him on a Saturdee, he gammons t' catch me doin' somethin' in school on Sundee, an' comes down on me with the corner of his bible, 'r screws me ear.
Then he took a seat astride the log and offered some commonplace information about a nest of joeys in a neighboring tree and a tame magpie that had escaped, and was teaching all the other magpies in Wilson's paddocks to whistle a jig and curse like a drover. But he got down to his point rather suddenly after all. 'Say, Harry, was you goin' to lambaste Tinribs? Tinribs?
'Who do you think worked that dirty trick on my brother? asked Harry gravely. Dick had not thought of the matter in that light, but he answered, without hesitation: 'Ole Tinribs, I expect. 'Dickie! cried Mrs. Haddon, reprovingly. 'Why, why, Dick? queried the young man.
Gable's a kid. 'No matter, it's true. Mrs. Hardy had a letter, 'n Harry's coming down with cattle. 'Gosh! he'll make it hot for Tinribs, I bet. Waddy had been waiting for Harry Hardy to come home, confident that he would do something of an exciting character to the disadvantage of those persons who had been instrumental in sending his brother Frank to gaol.
'Don't forget the little widow was sweet on Frank Hardy before you jugged him, Tinribs, said the miner. Tinribs was a name bestowed upon the superintendent by the youth of Waddy, and called after him by irreverent small boys from convenient cover or under the shelter of darkness. He found the Widow Haddon at home. She it was who answered his knock.
'Who for? asked Dick, hanging to his friend. 'Find out. 'Oh, right you are; but you won't go, that's all. 'Well, I'm goin' to tell 'em that Tinribs is up at his house. 'How d'yer know? 'I was sneakin' round to get a shot at a cat, an' I heard 'em. Lemme go 'r he'll be gone, you fool. 'Won't, said Dick, masterfully. 'You ain't goin'. 'Who'll stop me? 'I will. 'Tain't in yer.
Custom had made him exceedingly cautious, for it was the delight of the men to play tricks upon him, usually of an exceedingly painful nature. The searcher is no man's friend. When putting on his dry clothes, Harry heard Joe Rogers, the foreman, saying: 'D'yer know them's Harry Hardy's togs yer pawin', Brother Tinribs?
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