Vulgar words in While the Billy Boils (Page 1)
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First, the cows' eyes got bad, and he sought the advice of a German cocky, and acted upon it; he blew powdered alum through paper tubes into the bad eyes, and got some of it snorted and butted back into his own.
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He and the aforesaid cocky made arrangements to send their butter to a better market; and then the cows contracted a disease which was known in those parts as "plooro permoanyer," but generally referred to as "th' ploorer."
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"Do I look knocked up?"
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"Now, look here!" he howled, "I don't know who the gory sheol you are, except that you're a gory lunatic, and what's more, I don't care a damn.
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I call this damn poor country."
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A big, thirsty, hungry wilderness, with one or two cities for the convenience of foreign speculators, and a few collections of humpies, called towns--also for the convenience of foreign speculators; and populated mostly by mongrel sheep, and partly by fools, who live like European slaves in the towns, and like dingoes in the bush--who drivel about 'democracy,' and yet haven't any more spunk than to graft for a few Cockney dudes that razzle-dazzle most of the time in Paris.
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He never seed the damn prop, never chased no cow with it, and wants to know what's the use of always accusing him.
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"I carried him for months in a billy, and afterwards on my swag when he knocked up.... And the old slut--his mother--she'd foller along quite contented--and sniff the billy now and again--just to see if he was all right.... She follered me for God knows how many years.
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He couldn't, as an ignorant and conceited ass, lose such a good opportunity of asserting his faithfulness and importance to his church.
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One cocky I worked for wanted me to stay with him for good.
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And the girls will be running to meet the old cocky when he comes riding home at night, and they'll let down the sliprails, and ask him to guess 'who's up at our place?'
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Yes, I'll find a job with some old cocky, with a good-looking daughter or two.
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"By and by the cocky'll have a few sheep he wants shorn, and one day he'll say to me, 'Jack, if you hear of a shearer knockin' round let me know--I've got a few sheep I want shore.'
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"So, I'll marry her and settle down and be a cocky myself and if you ever happen to be knocking round there hard up, you needn't go short of tucker a week or two; but don't come knocking round the house when I'm not at home."
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"Damn you for a hass!" snarled Jim Bullock between his teeth, giving the galoot a vicious dig in the side with his elbow.
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I've been a fool, I know, but I've paid for it; and now there's nothing for it but to tramp, tramp, tramp for your tucker, and keep tramping till you get old and careless and dirty, and older, and more careless and dirtier, and you get used to the dust and sand, and heat, and flies, and mosquitoes, just as a bullock does, and lose ambition and hope, and get contented with this animal life, like a dog, and till your swag seems part of yourself, and you'd be lost and uneasy and light-shouldered without it, and you don't care a damn if you'll ever get work again, or live like a Christian; and you go on like this till the spirit of a bullock takes the place of the heart of a man.
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Damn the world, say I!"
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No more it was--he was a different kind of man; he hadn't spunk enough to be a bushranger, and it was a better man that was buried for him; it was a different kind of woman, holding up a different kind of branch, that was tattooed on Brummy's arm.
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"I allers told yer as how it 'ud be--an' here y'are, you thundering jumpt-up cuss-o'-God fool.
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"The same cuss-o'-God wretch has a-follered me 'ome, an' has been a-havin' its Christmas dinner off of Brummy, an' a-hauntin' o' me into the bargain, the jumpt-up tinker!"
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Me and Blanker---" Disgusted voice from a bunk: "Oh, that's damn rot!
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All the boys considered Malachi the greatest ass on the station, and there was no doubt that he _was_ an awful fool.
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"Then the outside dog says: "'Why, you're worse than a flaming old slut!'
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He was a squatter of the old order--new chum, swagman, drover, shearer, super, pioneer, cocky, squatter, and finally bank victim.
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cheque: wages for a full season of sheep-shearing; meant to last until the next year, including a family, but often "blued' in a 'spree' chyack: (chy-ike) like chaffing; to tease, mildly abuse cocky: a farmer, esp.