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Place side by side with johnny-cakes or damper
Three bags containing sugar, flour and tea,
A billy and some “neck,” and swaggie's hamper
Will, with a pannikin, completed be.
Then spread you out a blanket and some sheeting,
And roll within a little dilly-bag,
A change of togs, a coat for Sunday meeting—
And there you have his ordinary swag.
Build you a fire beside some eucalyptus,
By No Man’s Creek, and ’neath the starry dome,
Where dingoes wander whence their lonely crypt is—
And there you have his customary home.
Take you a man sunbrowned, with thews of iron,
A cheerful heart, stout as an ironclad.
And dress him like a wheel without a tire on—
And there you have the nomad on the pad.
Then give him but his health's assets for hawking,
And his condition labels him “for hire;”
Turn him adrift on horny feet for walking,
And to complete him, call him Long Maguire.
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