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Christmas in the Bush in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 296: These are men camped in lonely parts, batching at station out-camps or boundary-riders’ huts. Some of them have been so long alone.at bach (it), v.
Christmas in the Bush in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 296: These are men camped in lonely parts, batching at station out-camps or boundary-riders’ huts. Some of them have been so long alone. in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 81: Others swamp their earnings at the wayside rubby, and have themselves to blame that they are every year humping bluey.at hump one’s bluey (v.) under bluey, n.1
‘Shearer and Rouseabout’ in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 248: A good captain has no trouble with his men. He may ‘chip’ them often, but while his chips are effective, they leave no bitterness.at chip, n.4
‘Shearer and Rouseabout’ in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 248: A good captain has no trouble with his men. He may ‘chip’ them often, but while his chips are effective, they leave no bitterness.at chip, v.1
Christmas in the Bush in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 294: The old home, which has long been dull and quiet, now rings with merry laughter and glad voices, and when Bob does a jig in his clod-smashers the very roof shakes and the crockery rattles loudly on the dresser.at clod-masher (n.) under clod, n.1
‘Shearer and Rouseabout’ in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 245: This enclosure is not refilled until the last sheep, called the cobbler, is caught, and each of the mates shows his generosity by trying hard to let go first, so as to leave him for the other.at cobbler, n.1
Selector in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 215: Old teamsters will tell you that a bullock-whip is a formidable weapon when you know how to use it, and most effective in ‘putting the come hither’ on the off-siders.at put the comether on (v.) under comether, n.
Dissertation of Travellers in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 66: The Cornstalk doesn’t much care how he rolls his [swag]; he merely objects to bulk and weight.at cornstalk, n.
Bush Cooks in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 88: [T]he cook, on the whole, has an unenviable time [...]. Take the man, for instance, who ‘dishes up’ for station-hands.at dish (out), v.
Bella Bush in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 35: Whatever her station, Bella is an adept at ‘making a do of things.’.at make a do of (v.) under do, n.
‘Shearer and Rouseabout’ in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 234: Some hardened sinner demands, ‘What d’yer call this, cook? Goat, or a hunk of a cart-’orse? Dog scratch me, it’s as tough as Mother Lord Harry!’.at dog, n.1
Bush Cooks in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 88: The notion was once prevalent that all wayback dough-bangers were pugilistic champions, and dozens [...] traded on this reputation, going smilingly through camp and shed on the game of bluff, challenging any man to fight who found fault with the tucker. [...] Dough-banging does not develop the muscles in the manner that bush-whackers used to imagine.at doughbanger (n.) under dough, n.
Dissertation of Travellers in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 71: ‘Goreny grease on yer, mate?’ he asked. ‘Th’ bloomin’ squeak o’ this fakus [i.e. ‘a brandy-box on four wooden wheels’] is enough to give a cove th’ blues.’.at fakus, n.
Cattle Muster in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 124: A merry troop follows in a bunch at their heels, while ‘Flourbags,’ the musterers’ cook, mounted on ‘the quietest thing they’ve got,’ brings up the rear and talks unlearnedly of horses and cattle.at flourbags, n.
‘Shearer and Rouseabout’ in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 234: Some hardened sinner demands, ‘What d’yer call this, cook? Goat, or a hunk of a cart-’orse? Dog scratch me, it’s as tough as Mother Lord Harry!’.at by the Lord Harry! (excl.) under Lord Harry, n.
Bushman in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 20: I have heard him say grace before meat even in a shearing-shed. This is the grace: – / ‘One word’s as good as ten, / Wire in. Amen.’.at wire in, v.
Bush Cooks in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 82: The ‘knights of the flour-bag’ come in for a good deal of discussion at camp fires. A stockman one night related an experience with a ‘pick-up,’ who officiated during a mustering tour, being provided in this instance with a small hut.at knight of the..., n.
Fossicker in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 267: ‘There was Bill Brown,’ he went on, ‘used to camp under the rise there – livin’ on the smell of an oil rag for years.’.at live off the smell of an oil rag (v.) under live, v.
Dissertation of Travellers in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 70: There was a well-known Murrumbidgee whaler in the Wagga district, who had been doing the one circuit [...] for thirty odd years.at Murrumbidgee whaler (n.) under Murrumbidgee, n.
Bushman in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 13: Bushmen are accused of being heavy drinkers – called drunkards, in fact – yet what they drink in a year is but a factional portion of the quantity consumed by many of the nabobs of society.at nabob, n.
Dissertation of Travellers in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 67: Neddy, the tucker-bag, or nose-bag, is of more importance than the blue one, and by way of precedence dangles in front, mostly hanging to Matilda’s apron-strings. [...] The exact time when Swaggie, Bluey, Neddy, and Billy first entered into partnership would be hard to determine.at neddy, n.5
‘Shearer & Rouseabout’ Life in the Aus. Backblocks 247: Some hard case is bound to ‘throw-off’ at him at such times, and he sees apoplectic faces both sides of him [...] and the man-over-the-board remarks, ‘I’d leave him enough skin to start another coat with, Tom.’.at throw off, v.
Bush Cooks in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 88: On the other hand, if he is rationed out, as at many stations, and allowed none of the extras that help, as bushmen say, to top off a meal, the table naturally suffers, and the best name the men can find for him is ‘poisoner.’.at top off, v.
Dissertation of Travellers in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 68: The man with horses, the man on the bike, and the men who trek per medium of vehicles are just as much travellers as the person who ‘pads the hoof’; but the bush doesn’t recognise them in the same light at all.at pad the hoof (v.) under pad, v.1
‘Bush Cooks’ in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 88: On the other hand, if he is rationed out, as at many stations, and allowed none of the extras that help, as bushmen say, to top off a meal, the table naturally suffers, and the best name the men can find for him is ‘poisoner.’ [Ibid.] 93: A rouseabout went on cooking. He proved the greatest poisoner that ever handled flour; but he had a civil tongue [...] and if his bill of fare was monotonous, there was no lack of variety in his excuses.at poisoner, n.
Bush Cooks in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 91: Concerning fighting cooks the tales are legion. I remember one snag in a north-western (New South Wales) shed, who cooked abominably, but rendered his position tenable by punching the ringer, spreading out the shed pug, and knocking pieces off the wool-presser.at pug, n.4
Bushman in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 14: Every year resolutions are made in out-camps and huts to keep on the ‘strict Q.T.’ for twelve months, then go down and see the Melbourne Cup, the Mecca of the bushman. The ‘resolutions’ are often well carried out till [...] the wayside pubs start a-callin’.at on the Q.T. under Q.T., n.
Bush Cooks in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 91: Concerning fighting cooks the tales are legion. I remember one snag in a north-western (New South Wales) shed, who cooked abominably, but rendered his position tenable by punching the ringer, spreading out the shed pug, and knocking pieces off the wool-presser.at ringer, n.
Bush Cooks in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 81: Others swamp their earnings at the wayside rubby, and have themselves to blame that they are every year humping bluey.at rubbedy, n.
Christmas in the Bush in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 291: On the goldfields the miners take delight in surreptitiously introducing a few small nuggets into the plum-duff [...]. This habit of salting the pudding induces a good deal of prospecting.at salt, v.
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