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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357362" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Digger's Tale</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My oath!' the Duchess sez. 'You'd not ixpect<br> Sich things as that. Yeh don't mean kangaroos?<br>Go hon!' she sez, or words to that effect --<br> (It's 'ard to imitate the speech they use)<br>I tells 'er, 'Straight; I drives 'em four-in-'and<br>		'Ome in my land.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'You 'ear a lot,' sez little Digger Smith,<br> 'About 'ow English swells is so stand-off.<br>Don't yeh believe it; it's a silly myth.<br> I've been reel cobbers with the British toff<br>While I'm on leaf; for Blighty likes our crowd,<br>		An' done us proud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Us Aussies was the goods in London town<br> When I was there. If they jist twigged your 'at<br>The Dooks would ask yeh could yeh keep one down,<br> An' Earls would 'ang out 'Welcome' on the mat,<br>An' sling yeh invites to their stately 'alls<br>		For fancy balls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'This Duchess -- I ain't quite sure uv 'er rank;<br> She might 'ave been a Peeress. I dunno.<br>I meets 'er 'usband first. 'E owns a bank,<br> I 'eard, an' 'arf a dozen mints or so.<br>A dinkum toff. 'E sez, 'Come 'ome with me<br>		An' 'ave some tea.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'That's 'ow I met this Duchess Wot's-'er-name --<br> Or Countess -- never mind 'er moniker;<br>I ain't no 'and at this 'ere title game --<br> An' right away, I was reel pals with 'er.<br>'Now, tell me all about yer 'ome,' sez she,<br>		An' smiles at me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'That knocks me out. I know it ain't no good<br> Paintin' word-picters uv the things I done<br>Out 'ome 'ere, barrackin' for Collin'wood,<br> Or puntin' on the flat at Flemin'ton.<br>I know this Baroness uv Wot-yeh-call<br>		Wants somethin' tall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I thinks reel 'ard; an' then I lets it go.<br> I tell 'er, out at Richmond, on me Run --<br>A little place uv ten square mile or so --<br> I'm breedin' boomerangs; which is reel fun,<br>When I ain't troubled by the wild Jonops<br>		That eats me crops.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I talks about the wondrous Boshter Bird<br> That builds 'er nest up in the Cobber Tree,<br>An' 'atches out 'er young on May the third,<br> Stric' to the minute, jist at 'arf past three.<br>'Er eyes get big. She sez, 'Can it be true?'<br>		'Er eyes was blue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'An' then I speaks uv sport, an' tells 'er 'ow<br> In 'untin' our wild Wowsers we imploy<br>Large packs uv Barrackers, an' 'ow their row<br> Wakes echoes in the forests uv Fitzroy,<br>Where lurks the deadly Shicker Snake 'oo's breath<br>		Is certain death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I'm goin' on to talk of kangaroos,<br> An' 'ow I used to drive 'em four-in-'and.<br>'Wot?' sez the Marchioness. 'Them things in zoos<br> That 'ops about? I've seen then in the Strand<br>In double 'arness; but I ain't seen four.<br>		Tell me some more.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I baulks a bit at that; an' she sez, ''Well,<br> There ain't no cause at all for you to feel<br>Modest about the things you 'ave to tell;<br> An' wot you says wonderfully reel.<br>Your talk' - an' 'ere I seen 'er eyelids flick --<br>		'Makes me 'omesick'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I reckerlect,' she sez -- 'Now let me see --<br> In Gippsland, long ago, when I was young,<br>I 'ad a little pet Corroboree,'<br> (I sits up in me chair like I was stung.)<br>'On it's 'ind legs,' she sez, 'it used to stand.<br>		Fed from me 'and.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Uv cours, I threw me alley in right there.<br> This Princess was a dinkum Aussie girl.<br>I can't do nothin' else but sit an' stare,<br> Thinkin' so rapid that me 'air roots curl.<br>But 'er? She sez, 'I ain't 'eard talk so good<br>		Since my childhood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">''I wish,' sez she, 'I could be back again<br> Beneath the wattle an' that great blue sky.<br>It's like a breath uv 'ome to meet you men.<br> You've done reel well,' she sez. 'Don't you be shy.<br>When yer in Blighty once again,' sez she,<br>		'Come an' see me.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I don't see 'er no more; 'cos I stopped one.<br> But, 'fore I sails, I gits a billy doo<br>Which sez, 'Give my love to the dear ole Sun,<br> An' take an exile's blessin' 'ome with you.<br>An' if you 'ave some boomerangs to spare,<br>		Save me a pair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">''I'd like to see 'em play about,' she wrote,<br> 'Out on me lawn, an' stroke their pretty fur.<br>God bless yeh, boy.' An' then she ends 'er note,<br> 'Yer dinkum cobber,' an' 'er moniker.<br>A sport? You bet! She's marri'd to an Earl --<br>		An Aussie girl.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q>
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 Sich things as that. Yeh don't mean kangaroos?
Go hon!' she sez, or words to that effect --
 (It's 'ard to imitate the speech they use)
I tells 'er, 'Straight; I drives 'em four-in-'and
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