On all the fields license-hunting has been pushed to such an extremity of oppression that only dingoes and Chinamen could bear it.
It was alive and well yes'day, but a couple o' dingoes hunted the pore thing down.
It was half-hour's walk, and there he was sitting by the sheep, and the two dead dingoes close by.
I say, Nosey, you don't happen to have seen any dingoes or blacks about here lately?
The hut was erected about forty yards from the stockyard, to which the sheep were brought every evening, to protect them from attack by dingoes or blackfellows.
As dingoes worry sheep, the first task of a squatter is to get rid of them.
I wonder if your blood would have run cold as mine did when the grass rustled under stealthy footsteps and me thinking it was the blacks sneaking us--and the relief of hearing three dismal howls and knowing it was dingoes and not blacks.
Silent as wraiths between the shadowy tree-trunks then, Finn and the four dingoes stalked their prey, describing a considerable circle in order to approach from good cover.
It was with the most exaggerated respectfulness that the dingoes circled, sniffing, about Finn's legs, their bushy tails carried deferentially near the ground.
When he announced to his companion that there were dingoes about, and that they had carried Jock off, the other man only grunted wearily, and turned over on his side.
Warrigal growled warningly as the three dingoes approached, but it seemed that Black-tip had spread abroad news of the coming of the Wolfhound in such a manner as to disarm hostility.
In twos and threes the dingoes followed Black-tip's lead, and climbed the flat rock to sniff their dead tyrant, and satisfy themselves that he had indeed entered upon the long sleep.
One quick look and thrust of her muzzle asked Finn to play his independent part, and another, flung with apparent carelessness across her right shoulder, bade the three dingoes follow her in the work of cutting out.
He had much desired to follow up the trail of the two dingoes that escaped him, but he would not leave Jess long enough at a time to make this possible.
When the dingoes had finished with the little chain of small pools in the gully on the afternoon of that day, there was little left but mud; one might have called it a creek bed, but it certainly was no longer a creek.
This brought Gyp to his feet with a fierce volley of barking, and he would have been off in pursuit but for his master, who woke up and ran out exclaiming: "Dingoes after the sheep!
Should the fire go out it was no more than possible that a pack of dingoes might creep up, and while we were in darkness drive the horses away, or carry off our saddle-bags, or tear our saddles and sleeping-rugs to pieces.
Some well-aimed lashes on their backs made the dingoes turn tail and retreat to a safe distance, where they stood watching the operation of cutting up one of the animals.
Still, excited by the chase, we kept on, the dead dingoes marking the course we had taken.
On and on we went, still no dingoes could we see, nor could we distinguish the track made by our horses' feet.
While we were assisting Bob and Toby to load the cart with the flesh of the first bullock, the dingoes made a sudden dash at the carcase of the animal on which they had before commenced.
Not so sure of that," I answered as we rode away, and turning my head, I observed that one of the dingoes was beginning to move.
We'll now ride back as hard as we can go, and get the cart to bring in the meat before the dingoes or black fellows or the ants have taken possession of it.
I do not know whether the cow was grateful, but we left her licking her calf where the dingoeshad bitten it.
If discovered by hostile blacks, they would make me a target for their spears, or a pack of dingoes might attack me.
It was a far from pleasant undertaking, but it was better to put them underground before they were discovered by the dingoes or vultures, which would before long find them out.
Burke's body had been dragged a short distance from where it originally lay, and was partly eaten by the dingoes (wild dogs).
He was called "Poisonous Jimmy" perhaps on account of his liquor, or perhaps because he had a job of poisoning dingoes on a station in the Bogan scrubs at one time.
Mick always carried a bottle of strychnine about with him, and at every camp he poisoned little bits of meat and left them behind to kill the dingoeswhich abound in cattle country.
Others joined it like a pack of dingoes howling in the night.
The dingoes had been unable to reach the meat hung up among the branches, although, from the appearance of the trampled ground beneath, they had evidently made great efforts to get at it.
The blacks and dingoes had of course to be looked after; but Bendigo reported that there were none of the former in the neighbourhood, although it was impossible to say at what time they might appear.
We turned in early, tired out, and scarcely had we rolled ourselves in our blankets when a dismal howl made us "say things," and in half an hour all the dingoes in North Queensland seemed to have gathered around the camp to distract us.
He had slept like a pig all night, and all the dingoes in Australia would not awaken a black fellow with a full stomach of beef, damper and tea.
I've tried to make expenses meet, But wasted all my labours, The sheep the dingoes didn't eat Were stolen by the neighbours.
And after them went the cowardly dingoes that preyed on their young.
But dingoes hunt only by night, and unmolested pigs do not squeal.
The dingoes are playing havoc, and I suppose the ones that stray will all fall to them.
We’re all out shepherding now, and trying to keep the sheep from scattering too much, and from the dingoes getting too many.
The work of keeping the sheep together, and of protecting them from dingoes and foxes, and at the same time letting them have a chance to find feed enough to let them live, was keeping all the hands of Coolongolong hard at work.
If the dingoes would look upon it in that light, what a joy it would be, eh?
Every shepherd seems to have tried how the dingoes rated the flavour of his flock, or arranged for a 'box' at the least, since you went.
Two snarling dingoes started up and sneaked away from the body as the man approached.
Going to give the dingoes a feast, and to send that young person you've got hold of into the pleasant company of his dear departed brother.
He was thinking too deeply to notice the plaintive cry, like the wail of a child, of the little native bear in the great trees of the gully, or the howls of the dingoes that every now and then disturbed so weirdly the silence of the night.
As the little bird flew from the heart of the woman, all the dead dingoes were changed into snakes, many different kinds, all poisonous.
At the points of the Moorillahs where Bougoodoogahdah and her dingoes used to slay the blacks, are heaps of white stones, which are supposed to be the fossilised bones of the massacred men.
The dingoesclosed in, quickly hemming the black fellows in all round; then they made a simultaneous rush at them, tore them with their teeth, and killed them.
Presently they heard a low cry from the old woman of "Birree gougou," which cry was quickly followed by dingoes coming out of the bush in every direction, in hundreds, surrounding the black fellows at the point.
The light was very dim, and there was a general whisper that the attempt to get a drink of water should not be left later; as some feared such foes as dingoes and night birds, should they venture into the open space at night.
I often wonder," she said, "why they and the dingoesare allowed to live on this beautiful kind earth.
There are hawks, snakes, dingoes and humans, and no one can tell for what good they exist.
In the neighbourhood of Brisbane and other large towns where they have packs, they run the dingoes as you do foxes at home.
That evening, in conference with his chief stockman, Mr. M'Intyre laid his plans for the extermination of the pack of dingoes which had just given an exhibition of their destructive powers.
The trapper fixed his camp in the hills, and employed his best endeavours to trap the remaining dingoes with but partial success, securing one only.
Didna I ask you to tell him that, dingoes or no dingoes, he is to come next week at the latest, to handle the colts?
When the trapped dingoes were approached they set up a dismal howling, which turned to a vigorous snapping with their teeth; the while they tore the earth with their paws in vain efforts to escape.
There were a few shots, and the noise changed to yelps as the dingoes scurried in terror down the hill.
Let's go there, too; thedingoes are absolutely fascinating.
The dingoes were rewarding, and Daisy instantly curried favour with their keeper, and learnt about their entrancing habits; afterwards the two went back to see the lions fed before leaving.
A number ofdingoes serenaded us as we worked at night; what they live upon is not quite clear, unless it be spinifex rats.
This welcome occurrence, added to Godfrey's having seen a kangaroo in the hills and the dingoes heard the night before, made us confident that water was not far off.
For the tails of the dingoes the Government pays five shillings apiece; as their destructive habits amongst sheep make them better liked dead than alive.
I should have had to end his days with a bullet, and leave his bones to be picked by the dingoes of the Great Sandy Desert.
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