Golden Buckles, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Golden Buckles, Vol. 8

The following pages were written on a horse and cattle station in Central Australia.

My study is a wurley made of broom-bush lashed with green-hide to mulga posts and rails. It is the station dining-room. Hither come the lowing of yarded cattle, the squeal of frightened horses, the thunder of galloping hoofs, the bray ing of donkeys, the racket of stock-whips, and the yabber of excited blacks; and, when tin plates are pushed back and pipes well alight, it is here that Bill and Johnny and old man Ted tell tales of when I was a young feller.

My companions are all old bushmen, and their speech is coloured with picturesque and expres sive profanity, which is inseparably part of the life they lead. In only this respect have I not been true to my mates. I value the vividness of their phraseology, but know that, away from these great plains, it would give offence. But the men, the scenes, and the life have not been al tored, and are told from personal experience.

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