3/39 People hardly know the rights of them. But if you take a regular strong down upon a man or woman when you first see 'em it's ten to one that you'll find some day as you've good reason for it. We couldn't say what grounds we had for hating the sight of Warrigal neither, for he was as good a tracker as ever followed man or beasts. He could read all the signs of the bush like a printed book. Hour after hour he'd ride ahead through scrub or forest, up hill or down dale, with that brute of a horse of his--he called him 'Bilbah'-- ambling away, till our horses, except Rainbow, used to shake the lives out of us jogging. |