Part 40 (2/2)
”You na,” corrected the boundary lass? Me lay you on, all li”
”It is the voice of a God, and not of a man!” I replied ”Have-u? Where oo' glass”
”How me fetch-ure hospitality, gavethe Trinidad The nearest corner of this paddock was only eight o round by certain tracks,the distance twelve or fourteenportion of a five by ten, recently divided
There was no water in it It was crossed by a shallow billabong which had been da fence was erected; but the first flood in the Lachlan had burst an opening in the embankment, so that even at the end of the previous winter there was no water in the paddock, except a drop of sludgy stuff in the excavation Hence the grass There was no stock in the Trinidad, and no one in charge There were two stationout the da Also, Mr Smythe ay in Melbourne, and would n't be back for another week Of course, it took me about half-an-hour to Champollion all this information from the cryptical utterances of the friendly Asiatic
”You allee sa away ood place bimeby”
”Me Clistian allee sa time 'Paul' Clistian name Splink' wattel, all li”
With this he bade ood-bye, and went his way Then I saddled-up and started for the Trinidad;Mr Smythe, Bert, and myself, in one dish of the moral scale, and this undesirable alien in the other, with an unflattering upshot to the superior race
And this conclusion was rass was so the tall lignuood waterhole about a mile aith only a low, slack fence to cross
Between one thing and another, it ht have been about three in the afternoon when, with Pup reposing by my side, I finally settled down to an after-dinner se meerschaureatest supra-physical pleasures of life are antithetical in operation One is to have so it deftly and honestly The other is to have nothing to do, and to know that you are carrying out your blank prograood and faithful menial
On this afternoon, the latter line of inaction see ht be prepared to room is supposed tofaculties obtruded themselves, I knapp'd 'em o' the coxcombs with a stick, and cry'd 'Doantons, down' Briefly, I kept ear strictly quiescent, with only the perceptive apparatus unrestrained, thus observing all things through the hallowed haze of a mental sabbath
There is a positive felicity in this attitude of soul, coative happiness of Nirvana
”Taking it easy, Tom?” conjectured a familiar voice
”No, Steve,” Imy eyes ”Tea in the quart-pot there What are you after? Or is sorass”
”Well, you've bottoht you were out to Kulkaroo, with salt?”
”Just getting down again, with a half-load of pressed skins Bullocks living on box-leaves and lignuht Saunders, the fencer, told ot a ten- out with three horses and a dray-load of stores for himself Dray stopped on the road for the last week, with his wife oolee, and hi them for all he's worth
Keeps theht He would n't have laidto drop across the with you to-night?”
”Baxter and Donovan It's a good step to travel--rass is worth it Safe, too, fro the bullocks out at daylight, and planting theet back, to meet the other chaps with the mob”
”Well, I'll be here when you come”
Thompson turned his horse, and disappeared round a pro, dusky red, toward the smoky horizon; so I addressedback a supply for s, I took the bell off Cleopatra