-Tis a yarn I heard of a new-chum -trap-
On the edge of the Never-Never,
Where the dead men lie and the black men lie,
And the bushman lies for ever.
-Twas the custom still with the local blacks
To cadge in the -altogether--
They had less respect for our feelings then,
And more respect for the weather.

The trooper said to the sergeant-s wife:
-Sure, I wouldn-t seem unpleasant;
-But there-s women and childer about the place,
-And-barrin- a lady-s present-

-There-s ould King Billy wid niver a stitch
-For a month-may the drought cremate him!-
-Bar the wan we put in his dirty head,
-Where his old Queen Mary bate him.

-God give her strength!-and a peaceful reign-
-Though she flies in a bit av a passion
-If ony wan hints that her shtoyle an- luks
-Are a trifle behind the fashion.

-There-s two of the boys by the stable now-
-Be the powers! I-ll teach the varmints
-To come wid nought but a shirt apiece,
-And wid dirt for their nayther garmints.

-Howld on, ye blaggards! How dare ye dare
-To come widin sight av the houses?-
-I-ll give ye a warnin- all for wance
-An- a couple of ould pair of trousers.-

They took the pants as a child a toy,
The constable-s words beguiling
A smile of something beside their joy;
And they took their departure smiling.

And that very day, when the sun was low,
Two blackfellows came to the station;
They were filled with the courage of Queensland rum
And bursting with indignation.

The constable noticed, with growing ire,
They-d apparently dressed in a hurry;
And their language that day, I am sorry to say,
Mostly consisted of -plurry.-

The constable heard, and he wished himself back
In the land of the bogs and the ditches-
-You plurry big tight-britches p-liceman, what for
-You gibbit our missuses britches?-

And this was a case, I am bound to confess,
Where civilisation went under;
Had one of the gins been less modest in dress
He-d never have made such a blunder.

And here let the moral be duly made known,
And hereafter signed and attested:
We should place more reliance on that which is shown
And less upon what is suggested.