Part 12 (2/2)

”We'll git on grand together I'h I say it myself; an' I would n't wish for better (adj) company nor you

Come on; you won't be sorry after”

”Quocunque trahunt fata sequaaily toup the whip--Dixon was a virtuoso in whips, and always carried one with six feet of handle and twelve feet of lash--he aimed at the team, collectively, a clip which, in the most literal sense, recoiled on himself

And so the officer's son and the sojer's son took their way together; to become, as I afterward learned, the most attached and mutually considerate friends on the track Such is life

Tho the fence as well as they could This being done, and the relics of the fire kicked about, they put their tea little trace of the ca asleep outside the fence The ominous speck on the plain had approached much nearer, but had taken definite for of escape seemed like a positive benefaction ”If,” says Carlyle, ”thou wert condeed--which is probably less than thou deservest--thou wouldest esteeratitude therefore shone in the frank faces of the outlaws; tempered, however, in Thompson's case, by salutary remorse, for his coood his swearing had done

We could see Price's tea low, and canted over to the off side; bogged, evidently

Dixon's wagon was close in front of us; Willoughby was zealously flogging himself, and occasionally we could hear Dixon's voice in encourageon was stuck was not a creek, but one down six inches, but Price had happened on a bad place, and his wagon had found the bottom

All Mosey's team, except the polers, had been hooked on, but with no result beyond the breaking of a orn chain

”Ain't got puddin' enough, Thompson,” said Mosey, as my companions stopped their teams and went on to survey the place ”The (adv) thunderin'

ole oes crawlin' into the rottenest place he could fine

You shove your team in nex' the polers, an' I'll hook our lot on in front

Your chains'll stan' to fetch (sheol) out by the (adj) roots

Please the pigs, we'll git out o' sight afore that ole (overseer) coht the wagon on to solid ground Meanwhile Dixon and Willoughby had taken their teaconnected with Port Phillip--roads in particular-- had selected his route, and started his teaon, and crossed safely, but with very little to spare

”Touch-and-go,” he remarked to me; ”another bale would have anchored her

Ah! Cooper's in it, with all his cleverness”

Cooper was in it The two-ton Hawkesbury, with seven-and-a-half tons of load, was down to the axle-beds; and the Cornstalk was endeavouring, by means of extracts fro like justice to the contingency Tholanced toward the ram-paddock, and hooked his tea his broken chain ire, now caive you a lend of our whips,” said he with cheap complaisance

”Take the leaders yerself, Tho the (adj) handle out of her Now--pop it on--to 'em!”

Then thirty-six picked bullocks planted their feet and prised, and a hundred and seventy feet of bar chain stretched tense and rigid froon crept forward

A low grurowl than a bellow, passed froon would n't stop again if it could be taken through The off front wheel rose slowly on harder ground; the off hind wheel rose in its turn; both near wheels ploughed deeper beneath the top-heavy weight of thirty-eight bales----

”She's over!” thundered Cooper ”Keep her goin'--it's her on'y chance!”

Then the heavy pine whipsticks bent like bulrushes in the drivers'

skilful hands, while a spray of dissevered hair, and so blood, followed each detonation--the libretto being in keeping

A few yards forward still, while both off wheels rose to the surface, and both near wheels sank till the naves burrowed in the ground; then the wagon swung heavily over on its near side

”Good-bye, John,” said Cooper, with fine iive us a hand, Collins?” For Price and Mosey were silently returning to their teams