Mind, if you see cause, you deal with him, or else,----" (with an awful oath) "you answer to the others." "If he's got to go, he'll go," replied the other, doggedly.

"Don't you fear me; Moody the cannibal ain't a man to flinch." "What, is that tale true then ?" asked Hawker, looking at his companion with a new sort of interest.
"Why, in course it is," replied Moody; "I thought no one doubted that.
That Van Diemen's Land bush would starve a bandicoot, and Shiner and I walked two days before we knocked the boy on the head; the lad was getting beat, and couldn't a' gone much further.

After three days more we began to watch one another, and neither one durst walk first, or go to sleep.

Well, Shiner gave in first; he couldn't keep his eyes open any longer.

And then, you know, of course my own life was dearer than his'n." "My God! That's worse than ever I did!" said Hawker.
"But not worse than you may do, if you persevere.