. Selected poems; . ^ treasons resented, Yon may do worse, old man, in your life;Let me dream, too, that I am contentedâ For the sake of a true little wife. 1898. The Green-hand Rouseabout f\LL this hot ? I beg your pardon. Hot!âyou dont know what it means.(Whats that, waiter? lamb or mutton! Thank youâ mine is beef and and butter while Im waiting. Milk? Oh, yesâa bucketful.) Im just in from west the Darling, picking-up and rollingwool. Mutton stewed or chops for breakfast, dry and tasteless, boiled in fat;Bread or brownie, tea or coffeeâtwo hours graft in front of that;Legs of mu
. Selected poems; . ^ treasons resented, Yon may do worse, old man, in your life;Let me dream, too, that I am contentedâ For the sake of a true little wife. 1898. The Green-hand Rouseabout f\LL this hot ? I beg your pardon. Hot!âyou dont know what it means.(Whats that, waiter? lamb or mutton! Thank youâ mine is beef and and butter while Im waiting. Milk? Oh, yesâa bucketful.) Im just in from west the Darling, picking-up and rollingwool. Mutton stewed or chops for breakfast, dry and tasteless, boiled in fat;Bread or brownie, tea or coffeeâtwo hours graft in front of that;Legs of mutton boiled for dinnerâmutton greasy-warm for teaâMutton curried (gave my order, beef and plenty greens for me.)Breakfast, curried rice and mutton till your innards you sicken at the colour and the very look of day long with living muttonâbits and belly-wool and fleece;Blinded by the yoke of wool, and shirt and trousers stiff with grease,Till you long for sight of verdure, cabbage-plots and water you crave for beef and butter as a boozer craves for beer. Dusty patch in baking mulgaâglaring iron hut and shedâ
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