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Southerly Busters - George Herbert Gibson
George Herbert Gibson
Southerly Busters
EAN 8596547339526
DigiCat, 2022
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Table of Contents
AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
LINES BY A (PAWN) BROKEN-HEARTED YOUTH.
THE ANCIENT SHEPHERD
WHERE IS FREEDOM?
THE CATTLE MUSTER.
THE NIGHT CAMP.
THE MUSTER.
THE RUN HOME.
II.
ECHO VERSES.
WHAT AN ECHO TOLD THE AUTHOR.
Author, musing
THE SHEPHERD'S VENGEANCE,
Fytte the First.
Fytte the Second.
SOCIAL EVILS.
JL.
MORAL PHILOSOPHY FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
AN AMBITIOUS DREAM.
|I walked about in Wynyard Square
SUPERNATURAL REVELATIONS OF A FANCY-GOODS MAN,
OR THE DIABOLICAL DEMON OF THE DEADLY DRAIN.
CHRISTMAS.
By a New Chum.
THE CATARACT.
*
THE STOCKMAN'S GRAVE.
EPITAPH ON A CONVIVIAL SHEARER.
A CANDIDATE FOR AN EARLY GRAVE.
A PEELER'S APPEAL
Against the Helmet of Modern Times.
THE OLD HAND.
PREFACE TO THE PIC-NIC PAPERS,
THE BUTCHER'S PIC-NIC.
THE OYSTERMEN'S AND FISHMONGERS' PIC-NIC.
THE WHEELWRIGHTS' PIC-NIC.
THE UNDERTAKER'S PIC-NIC.
THE HAIRDRESSERS' PIC-NIC.
THE GREAT CRICKET MATCH.
BREWERS v. PUBLICANS.
NOTES.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
LINES BY A (PAWN)BROKEN-HEARTED YOUTH.
THE ANCIENT SHEPHERD
WHERE IS FREEDOM?
THE CATTLE MUSTER.
WHAT AN ECHO TOLD THE AUTHOR.
THE SHEPHERD'S VENGEANCE.
SOCIAL EVILS.
MORAL PHILOSOPHY FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
AN AMBITIOUS DREAM.
SUPERNATURAL REVELATIONS OF A FANCY-GOODS MAN,
CHRISTMAS.
THE CATARACT.
*
THE STOCKMAN'S GRAVE.
EPITAPH ON A CONVIVIAL SHEARER.
A CANDIDATE FOR AN EARLY GRAVE.
A PEELER'S APPEAL
THE OLD HAND.
THE BUTCHER'S PIC-NIC.
THE OYSTERMEN'S AND FISHMONGERS' PIC-NIC.
THE WHEELWRIGHTS' PIC-NIC.
THE UNDERTAKER'S PIC-NIC.
THE HAIRDRESSERS' PIC-NIC.
THE GREAT CRICKET MATCH.
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a. Billy,
a tin pot for making tea in.
b. Young gentlemen getting their colonial experience
in the bush are called jackeroos
by the station-hands. The term is seldom heard except in the remote back-blocks
of the interior.
c. It was formerly the practice of squatters to give a ration of flour, mutton, and, occasionally, tea and sugar, to all persons travelling ostensibly in search of work. The custom, however, as might have been expected, became frightfully abused by loafers, and has of late fallen into disuse, to the intense disgust of the tramping fraternity in general.
d. The Yanko is a noted sheep-station in the Murrumbidge district (the Paradise of loafers), where travellers were, and, I believe, still are, feasted at the expense of the owners, on a scale of great magnificence, and somewhat mistaken liberality.
e. The utterly refined and unsophisticated reader is informed that to whip the cat
signifies, in nautical parlance, to weep or lament.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
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IAM assured that something in the way of an apologetic preface is always expected from a new-chum
author who has had the hardihood to jump his Pegasus over the paddock fence (so to speak), and drop, uninvited, into the field of letters; and so, having induced a publisher, in a moment of weakness, to bring me before the public, it behoves me to conciliate that long-suffering body by conforming to all established rules. I am aware that my excuse for inflicting this work on mankind is somewhat thin
but, such as it is, I will proceed to state it, as a plea in bar
against all active and offensive expressions of indignation on the part of outraged humanity.
Having got me some ideas,
as Mr Emmett says in the character of Fritz,
and feeling the necessity for inflicting them on somebody imminent, I tried their effect on my own immediate circle of friends. It was not satisfactory. They listened, indeed, for a while, thinking that I was suffering from a slight mental derangement which would be best treated by judicious humouring. Some even affected to be entertained, and laughed (what a hollow mockery of merriment it was! ) at atrocious puns; but I could see the look of hate steal over countenances which had hitherto beamed on me with interest and affection, and was not deceived.
I saw that friendship would not long survive such a test and desisted; but it was too late. They perceived I had what Artemus Ward calls the poetry disease;
feared that it might be infectious; knew that it was an insufferable bore to the afflicted party's circle of acquaintances; and—forgot to visit me.
When their familiar knocks no longer resounded on the door of my lodging in ———— street, and their familiar footsteps ceased to crush the cockroaches on the dark and winding staircase leading to my apartment, I bethought me of that institution which I had always heard alluded to as the kind and generous public.
Here, I thought (for I was unsophisticated), is the very friend I am in need of, which will receive me with its thousand arms, laugh with me with its thousand mouths, weep with me with its thousand eyes, and whose thousand hearts will beat in unison with mine whether my mood be one of sadness or of joy; behave itself, in fact, like a species of benevolent and sympathetic Hydra, shorn of its terrors, and fit to take part in the innocent and arcadian recreations of the millenium, when the (literary) lion shall lie down with the critic, and newspapers shall not lie any more—even for money.
During my hunt for that all essential auxiliary, a publisher, without whom the first step on the road to literary distinction (or extinction) cannot be taken, I learnt a few plain truths about my hydra-headed friend; amongst others that he was not to be hoodwinked, and would neither laugh, weep, nor sympathise unless he saw good and sufficient cause. I am in consequence not quite so sanguine as I was. However, I have gone too far to recede, and have concluded to throw myself on the bosom or bosoms of that animal and take my chances of annihilation.
One of my unsympathising friends assured me the other day that my book would certainly send anyone to sleep who should attempt its perusal. I gave him a ballad to read, and watched him anxiously while he skimmed a page or two. He did not sleep—not he, but a raging thirst overcame him at the fourteenth verse, and he begged me to send for a jug of half-and-half
with such earnestness that a new and dreadful apprehension filled my breast. If this was to be the effect of my work on the Public at large, I should empty the Temperance Hall, and fill the Inebriate Asylum in six months! As I had hitherto prided myself that my work was entirely free from any immoral tendency, I earnestly hoped that his organization was a peculiar one, and that its effect on him was exceptional, and not; likely to happen again.
Sleep, indeed! Would that these pages might be found to possess the subtle power of inducing tired Nature's sweet restorer
to visit the weary eyelids of knocked-up humanity; that they might become a domestic necessity, like Winslows soothing-syrup,
and a blessing to mothers;
that the critic—pausing midway in a burst of scathing invective against their literary and metrical deficiencies—overcome by their drowsy influence—might sink in dreamless