Part 33 (2/2)
”But why did n't you hobble thehtly ”Me 'obble my 'osses! Tell 'e wot, lad: 'at 's f'r w'y 'e C'lonian 'osses bea n't no good, aside o' Hinglish 'osses
Ain't got n' allerpin'
in 'obbles Tell 'e, Oi seed ood heaours, 'n' allerpin' in 'obbles
Doan' 'e preach 'obbles ter ood 'osses; noo entleman; on'y C'lonian 'osses 'es C'lonian fau'ts--ahd ter ketch--'ell ter ketch Fifteen monce--hevery day on it--wet 'n' droy; day hin, day heaout; tiew, three, foor heaours runnin'; 'n' 'ey (horses) spankin' abeaout, kickin' oop 'er 'eels loike wun o'clock, 'n' gittin' wuss 'n'
wuss, steed o' betteh 'n' betteh Toimes, Oi see me a'moos' losin' tempeh”
I turned away my face to conceal my emotion Sollicker went on----
”Accohdbl', wun oos, o' course; 'n' my 'osses 'ed n't n' moo 'rn stahted trampin' loike; 'n' heverythink quiet 's zabbath, 'n' nubbody abeout f'r oos 'arf-ways reaoun' 'he paddick, 'n' inter 'e stockyaad 'n' 'ere 'ey boides; 'n' 'at dorg a-settin' in 'e panel, a-watchin' of 'em, loike Neao d'ye ceaount f'r 'at, lad? Doan' 'at nonpulse 'e? Coomh!”
”It does, indeed! You did n't put him on the horses?”
”Noa, s'elp me bob Neveh clapped heyes honter 'im, not t' Oi seed 'im hahteh my 'osses, a-yaadin' of 'e) deaown f'm ebm! At 's w'y Oi calls 'ly Which, the censorious reader will not fail to notice, ht deflection from my moral code ”And he stayed with you, sir?”
”Follered hahteh ) dews heverythink loike a Christian--heverythink b't tork Hevery oos Jack, 'ees hown self, 'n' fetches 'e cyows
Hahteh breakfas' hit 's ”Osses, Jack; fetch y' 'osses' An' horf trots Jack, 'n' presinkly 'e 'osses be in 'e yaad, 'n' 'e (dog) a-settin' in 'e panel, a-watchin' of 'e how the Munchausens run in all shapes; then, desiring to minister occasion to this somewhat clumsy practitioner, I continued, ”I suppose you drop across some whoppers of snakes in your rounds, sir?”
”Sceace none Hain't seed b't wun f'r tiew year pas'; 'n' 'e (reptile) wah n't noo biggeh 'n ,” I remarked, after a pause
This neatly-placed colish undefiled; and another hour passed pleasantly enough, except that Alf's bullocks preyed on oolee instead I thereforesome half-dozen noteworthy reination, and always slightly or scornfully referring to the nanimous and indolish fools,' or as 'an ass of a John Bull that had n't sense enough to ues all seemed to point toward chivalrous succour of the helpless and afflicted as a conspicuous weakness of the English character; and Sollicker listened with a stolid approbation unfortunately altogether objective in character
I never dealt better since I was a ued the Sollickers of his day on dead Caesar's behalf; but I differed froely in result that the co inof sand The honest fellow's double-breasted ignorance stood solidly in the way, rendering prevarication or quibble, or any fore unnecessary on his part He lanced at the i on his paddock If they caain, he would hunt them back into Mondunbarra--he would do that much--but Muster M'Intyre's orders were orders Two bullock drivers (here a truculent look caht of the very wool-shed; and now all working bullocks found loafing on the run were to be yarded at the station--this lot being specially noticed, for Muster M'Intyre had a bit of a derry on Alf
By way of changing the subject, Sollicker became confidential He had been in his present employ ever since his arrival in the country, ten years before, and had never set foot outside the run during that ti Day, to the station bullockdriver's daughter; a girl who had been in service at the house, but could n't hit it with the missus Muster M'Intyre wanted to see him settled down, and had fetched the parson a-purpose to do the job He had only one of a family; a little boy, called Roderick, in honour of Muster M'Intyre
His own nay) was Edward Stanley Vivian--not Zedekiah Backband, as the novel-devouring reader e was forty-four If I knew anyone in straits for a bit of ready cash, I was to send that afflicted person to hie people; and his tariff was fifteen per cent per annuave him some details of Alf's sickness, and asked whether he had any reat faith in this specific; and I'll tell you the reason
A few years before the date of these events, it had been my fortune to be associated, in arduous and unhealthy work, with fifteen or twenty fellow-representatives of the order of society which Daniel O'Connell was accustohly important and respectable class, the men of no property'--true ht, their power and responsibility Occasionally one of these potential rulers and practical slaves would come to me hite lips and unsteady pace----
”I say, To to stan' on; but I'in' up every insect-infected sanguinary thing I've et for the lastit Mebbe I'll be right to-it”----
Here I would stop hinosis But a man with the vocabulary of a Stratford wool-comber (whatever a woolcomber may be) of the 16th century--a vocabulary of about two hundred and fifty words, e when confronted by scientific ter sy his uinary bad That was all that rong with hi a little theory of rapple with the coular feature in Pain-killer, that the more it is diluted, theit becomes; wherefore, my medicine chest consistedMy practice was to exhibit half-a-dozen tablespoonfuls of the panacea in a quart of oxide of hydrogen (vulgarly known as water) When my patient had sed that lot, I caused hiration produced by the potent long-sleever had subsided to cherry-red; and then sent hiiant refreshed with neine I never knew one of those potentates to be sick the second time
Sollicker did n't knohether his wife had any ly, when the twenty bullocks and the horse had landed themselves on Mondunbarra, close to Alf's ca a couple of e, half-concealed by the drooping, silvery foliage of a clump of myall
Sollicker turned his moke loose in the paddock; I tied ht, sunburnt, and decidedly handso the fire
”Theas (gentleman) 'e be a-wantin' zoom zorter vizik f'r a zicka seat