As they did not turn up at Stainbourne, a search was instituted, and they were found on one of the branches of Bullock Creek, both dead.
To ask a bullock driver where he got his beef from was not always a safe or prudent question; it was looked upon as a piece of wanton impertinence that would require suppression.
A great quantity of game was obtained here, ducks, geese, and emus were killed every day, and made a welcome addition to their fare of dried or jerked bullock meat.
Where the ways and customs consequent on the life brought all on a partial level, the man who could turn his hand to anything from shoeing a horse to weighing out a dose of quinine or driving a bullock team, was the most valuable.
Supplies to this place were carried from Port Denison by bullock dray, but the first wool was shipped for Sydney from the new port, Burketown.
He came, and having ascertained the brute's usual haunts, fastened a bullock near the edge of a ravine which he frequented, and quietly seated himself beside it, protected only by a small bush.
Every time he had snuggled right in under the bullockand was beginning to get a little warmer, the cow strayed away over the northern boundary.
First they seated themselves astride the bullock Cupid, which was lying chewing the cud.
After a short struggle the bullock drivers bolted, the thieves seized the opium and buried it.
Yet again, the smell of opium led to the detection of a robbery in the Punjaub, where a train of bullock carts laden with the drug was plundered by dacoits.
One day this saintly lady, in quest of redemption, met at the edge of the village a dishevelled boy who was subduing the fierceness of a young bullock by the aid of sounding oaths and a shower of blows.
But you must remember that the two young pigeons of the poor were just as acceptable to God as the fat bullock of the rich.
Mr. William Bullock and Mr. William Penkethman are of the same age, profession, and sex.
Mr. Penkethman has a great deal of money, but Mr. Bullock is the taller man.
They both distinguish themselves in a very particular manner under the discipline of the crabtree, with this only difference, that Mr. Bullockhas the most agreeable squawl, and Mr. Penkethman the more graceful shrug.
Penkethman is very dexterous at conveying himself under a table; Bullock is no less active at jumping over a stick.
I believe that tigers only take to eating men when they are growing old and their teeth begin to fail them, a man being easier to catch than a bullock or goat.
Once the animal was cut out of the herd, the manager would uncoil his lasso, one end of which was made fast to the cinch-ring of his girths, and out flew the looped coil of rope with unerring straightness, catching the bullock round the horns.
It was just such a youthful bullock as an English country lout would have spanked out of his way in the farmyard.
The young bloods of Yucatan are fond of improvising these bullock baitings; and one showed us with pride a scar on his wrist, a memento of a fight two or three days earlier.
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I won't have the wily Hussar fed on Government Bullock Train shinbones-- (Hastily.
But slow, in the sludge of the Kathun road, The Government Bullock Train toted its load.
They are simply the rank and file--the food for fever--sharing with the ryot and the plough-bullock the honor of being the plinth on which the State rests.
Binder's vakeel insisted upon giving a bullock to my people.
This bullock I resisted for some time, until I saw that the man was affronted.
Which of you could take thebullock without doing the man any violence?
There's nothing to be done now, but take a bullock out of the field and sell it at the fair.
When they saw him with the bullock they threw up their hats.
He went to the field then, took a bullock out of it, and passed the house just as the robbers were lighting their pipes.
The story says that he got back his goat, his sheep and his bullock and made it an excuse that he had seen three magpies on the road for not going to the fair to buy a shawl for his wife Ann.
Every day I kill a bullock and every day my byre-maid fills a vessel of milk to mix with my mortar.
He's sharpening a knife to kill a bullock in the morning," said Morag.
As Gilly sat there the farmer who had lost his goat, his sheep and his bullock came by.
And one year a heifer came and fed with his flock of goats and another year a bullock came.
As soon as he did, Gilly slipped out, took the bullock by the rope and hurried back to the house.
If he watched the goat and the sheep closely he'll watch the bullock nine times as closely," said one of the robbers.
He tied thebullock to a tree and went into the wood.
Gilly ordered that the goat, the sheep and the bullock be put into the byre, that the door be locked and the key be given to him.
He told him how he had thought he heard his goat bleating and his sheep ba'ing, and how he went through the wood to search for them, and how his bullock was gone when he came back to the road.
No one had dreamt riding behind a bullock team could have been so "flat, stale, and unprofitable," as it was after the first mile or two.
They went up in a body to speak to him before he joined the bullock team, and to view his solitary dwelling.
Kegl, who tied up a bullockas a bait and shot the lion from a tree at night.
Kitchener and Colonel Pulteney were in touch with General Bullock near Ermelo, and General Blood occupied Carolina with his cavalry.
From the 10th of June to the 4th of July, General Bullock continued his clearance of the country, dispersing Boer gangs east of Elandsberg down to the valley of the Assegai River.
A new line of supply was opened on the 28th, when Colonel Bullock started from Volkrust to Piet Retief with a convoy of ninety-one waggons.
General Bullock meanwhile, in July, had been sweeping the neighbourhood of Villiersdorp and Cornelia for the purpose of brushing Boers into the arms of General Elliot during the move of that officer from Springfield to Heilbron.
Bullock relates that, just as they were ready to set out, a great flight of quails settled in the camp, running around the wagons so near that they could be knocked over with sticks, and the children caught some alive.
The cattle were brought in from the woods, after a tedious search for them, for a bullock can hide himself easier under the parasitic vines and convolvulus which hang from those mammoth koas than anywhere under the sun.
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The story did, as the reader will see, grip him, and grip him hard, and in telling it Mr. Bullock has rendered the greatest of all his services to lovers of truth told about Ireland by Irish writers.
These may be fruitless speculations now, and Mr. Bullock wisely leaves us to draw our own conclusions as to the eminence to which Thomas Andrews might have attained had his life been spared.
The man between the bullock carts had his back turned, and was gazing toward Delhi under his hand.
Hard by the Ajmere Gate they halted, for some bullock carts had claimed their centuries-long prerogative of getting in the way.
Now, show to us the carcase of the bullock that you slew-- The great marsupial bullock that you killed in Gundaroo.
And both the banks is full of cracks; An' just about at dark You'll see the last year's bullock tracks Where Hogan drew the bark.
There's a nasty dash of danger where the long-horned bullock wheels, And we like to live in comfort and to get our reg'lar meals.
Common transient and summer resident through most of state; hybridizes freely with Bullock Oriole in west.
More than once the bandy bumped down with me, and one bullock ran away up the road, leaving the other beside himself with fear.
Tying it securely to the branch whence it hung, Ram Deen placed the unconscious bullock driver at the bottom of the mail-cart, the hostler supporting his head.
Vessels of clay, and a dead man," replied the little bullock driver.
Some one held a torch to the thing that lay across the end of the bullock driver's wagon, shrouded in a white cloth, on which was a red wet stain as big as a man's hand.
The Chinese bullock is a compact little animal, and, when fattened, yields remarkably good beef.
