On the Track by Henry Lawson
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I've counted all the bricks!
"Give us a chorus, Jimmy!" Jimmy does, giving his head a short, jerky nod for nearly every word, and describing a circle round his crown -- as if he were stirring a pint of hot tea -- with his forefinger, at the end of every line: Hall! -- Round! -- Me -- Hat! I wore a weepin' willer! Jimmy is a Cockney. "Now then, boys!" Hall -- round -- me hat! How many old diggers remember it? And: A butcher, and a baker, and a quiet-looking quaker, All a-courting pretty Jessie at the Railway Bar. I used to wonder as a child what the "railway bar" meant. And: I would, I would, I would in vain That I were single once again! |
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