Hangs about the place, and does a bit of work if he likes it.

If he don't, he goes.

These blacks is, to my mind, the only real gents as there is.

Look at him now.

He don't want no clothes nor no house, only a hut, as he makes out of a few bits o' bark and calls a gunyah, perhaps only a mia-mia." "What's a mia-mia ?" said Nic.
"Sort of a hurdle thing as he puts up for shelter, and to keep the wind from blowing his fire away.