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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344175" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wargeilah Handicap</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wargeilah town is very small, <br>There's no cathedral nor a club, <br>In fact the township, all in all, <br>Is just one unpretentious pub; <br>And there, from all the stations round, <br>The local sportsmen can be found. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sportsmen of Wargeilah-side <br>Are very few but very fit; <br>There's scarcely any sport been tried <br>But they can hold their own at it; <br>In fact, to search their records o'er, <br>They hold their own and something more. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The precincts of Wargeilah town <br>An English new-chum did infest: <br>He used to wander up and down <br>In baggy English breeches drest; <br>His mental aspect seemed to be <br>Just stolid self-sufficiency. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The local sportsmen vainly sought <br>His tranquil calm to counteract <br>By urging that he should be brought <br>Within the Noxious Creatures Act. <br>&quot;Nay, harm him not,&quot; said one more wise, <br>&quot;He is a blessing in disguise! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;You see, he wants to buy a horse, <br>To ride, and hunt, and steeplechase, <br>And carry ladies, too, of course, <br>And pull a cart, and win a race. <br>Good gracious! he must be a flat <br>To think he'll get a horse like that! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;But, since he has so little sense <br>And such a lot of cash to burn, <br>We'll sell him some experience <br>By which alone a fool can learn. <br>Suppose we let him have The Trap <br>To win Wargeilah Handicap!&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And her, I must explain to you <br>That round about Wargeilah run <br>There lived a very aged screw <br>Whose days of brilliancy were done. <br>A grand old warrior in his prime -- <br>But age will beat us any time. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A trooper's horse in seasons past <br>He did his share to keep the peace, <br>But took to falling, and at last <br>Was cast for age from the Police. <br>A publican at Conroy's Gap <br>Bought him and christened him The Trap. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When grass was good and horses dear, <br>He changed his owner now and then <br>At prices ranging somewhere near <br>The neighbourhood of two-pound-ten: <br>And manfully he earned his keep <br>By yarding cows and ration sheep. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They brought him in from off the grass <br>And fed and groomed the old horse up; <br>His coat began to shine like glass -- <br>You'd think he'd win the Melbourne Cup. <br>And when they'd got him fat and flash <br>They asked the new chum -- fifty -- cash! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when he said the price was high, <br>Their indignation knew no bounds. <br>They said, &quot;It's seldom you can buy <br>A horse like that for fifty pounds! <br>We'll refund twenty if The Trap <br>Should fail to win the handicap!&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The deed was done, the price was paid, <br>The new-chum put the horse in train. <br>The local sports were much afraid <br>That he would sad experience gain <br>By racing with some shearer's hack, <br>Who'd beat him half-way round the track. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, on this guileless English spark <br>They did most fervently impress <br>That he must keep the matter dark, <br>And not let any person guess <br>That he was purchasing The Trap <br>To win Wargeilah Handicap. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They spoke of &quot;spielers from the Bland&quot;, <br>And &quot;champions from the Castlereagh&quot;, <br>And gave the youth to understand <br>That all of these would stop away, <br>And spoil the race, if they should hear <br>That they had got The Trap to fear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Keep dark! They'll muster thick as flies <br>When once the news gets sent around <br>We're giving such a splendid prize -- <br>A Snowdon horse worth fifty pound! <br>They'll come right in from Dandaloo, <br>And find -- that it's a gift for you!&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The race came on -- with no display <br>Nor any calling of the card, <br>But round about the pub all day <br>A crowd of shearers, drinking hard, <br>And using language in a strain <br>'Twere flattery to call profane. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our hero, dressed in silk attire -- <br>Blue jacket and scarlet cap -- <br>With boots that shone like flames of fire, <br>Now did his canter on The Trap, <br>And walked him up and round about, <br>Until other steeds came out. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He eyed them with a haughty look, <br>But saw a sight that caught his breath! <br>It was Ah John! the Chinee cook! <br>In boots and breeches! pale as death! <br>Tied with a rope, like any sack, <br>Upon a piebald pony's back! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The next, a colt -- all mud and burrs, <br>Half-broken, with a black boy up, <br>Who said, &quot;You gim'me pair o' spurs, <br>I win the bloomin' Melbourne Cup!&quot; <br>These two were to oppose The Trap <br>For the Wargeilah Handicap! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They're off! The colt whipped down his head, <br>And humped his back, and gave a squeal, <br>And bucked into the drinking shed, <br>Revolving like a Catherine wheel! <br>Men ran like rats! The atmosphere <br>Was filled with oaths and pints of beer! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But up the course the bold Ah John <br>Beside The Trap raced neck and neck: <br>The boys had tied him firmly on, <br>Which ultimately proved his wreck; <br>The saddle turned, and, like a clown, <br>He rode some distance upside-down. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">His legs around the horse were tied, <br>His feet towards the heavens were spread, <br>He swung and bumped at every stride <br>And ploughed the ground up with his head! <br>And when they rescued him, The Trap <br>Had won Wargeilah Handicap! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And no enquiries we could make <br>Could tell by what false statements swayed <br>Ah John was led to undertake <br>A task so foreign to his trade! <br>He only smiled and said, &quot;Hoo Ki! <br>I stop topside, I win all li'!&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But never in Wargeilah Town <br>Was heard so eloquent a cheer <br>As when the President came down, <br>And toasted, in Colonial beer, <br>&quot;The finest rider on the course! <br>The winner of the Snowdon Horse! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;You go and get your prize,&quot; he said; <br>&quot;He's with a wild mob, somewhere round <br>The mountains near the Watershed; <br>He's honestly worth fifty pound -- <br>A noble horse, indeed, to win, <br>But none of us can run him in! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;We've chased him poor, we've chased him fat, <br>We've run him till our horses dropped; <br>But by such obstacles as that <br>A man like you will not be stopped; <br>You'll go and yard him any day, <br>So here's your health! Hooray! Hooray!&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The day wound up with booze and blow <br>And fights till all were well content. <br>But of the new-chum all I know <br>Is shown by this advertisement -- <br>&quot;For sale, the well-known racehorse Trap. <br>He won Wargeilah Handicap!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Barton+Paterson">Andrew Barton Paterson</a><div class=q>
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There's no cathedral nor a club, 
In fact the township, all in all, 
Is just one unpretentious pub; 
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