The first time I saw Mary dancing with Jack, and looking serious; and the second time she was dancing with the blarsted Jackaroo dude, and looking excited and happy.
Jackaroo: At the time Lawson wrote, a Jackaroo was a "new chum" or newcomer to Australia, who sought work on a station to gain experience.
Next evening the Jackaroo and one or two other chaps and the girls went out 'possum-shooting.
Looking back, I think there was a bit of romance about it: Mary singing under the vines to amuse a Jackaroo dude, and a coward going down to the river in the moonlight to fight for her.
I noticed that some of the girls, that I could see sitting on a stool along the opposite wall, whispered, and gave Mary black looks as the Jackaroo swung her past.
A few days later a Sydney Jackaroo visited the station.
The young fellows come as a rule from families of good class and generally have means of their own--a combination which should make the life history of the Jackaroo not unrewarding to the student of the fauna of these parts.
The Jackaroo spends most of his day in the saddle, riding long distances to outlying parts of the run, on the hunt for bogged sheep, or in supervising lambing or moving flocks from one paddock to another.
The Jackaroo is neither a crow nor a parrot nor any kind of quadruped.
One evening the jackaroowas down by the homestead-gate when Mary came cantering home on her tall chestnut.
Old Peter and a jackaroo were out on the run watching a bush-fire across Sandy Creek.
I was a green-hand jackarooonce meself, and I know what it is.
And then again Baldy would talk, just loud enough for Bogan to overhear, and swear that he'd sooner have Bogan, blind as he was, than half a dozen scientific jackaroo experts with all their eyes about them.
I've carried a portmanteau on the hot dusty roads in green old jackaroo days.
The Giraffe struck the deafjackaroo in the neat room.
A few days later the jackaroo happened to be at Kelly's, a wayside shanty, watching a fight between two bushmen, when Mary rode up.
It's that there sick jackaroo that was pickin'-up at Big Billabong," said the Giraffe.
The new-chum jackaroo is still alive, but he won't ever eat plum pudding any more, he says.
They knock down all their money at the first go-off, and then there's nothing for them to do but to go and jackaroo up in Queensland.
And for many and many a day the jackaroo will still chop down the limbs of the mulga-tree, that of its tonic leaves the sheep may eat and live.
We went most of the way by rail and coach, and then a jackaroomet us with a fine pair of horses in a waggonette.
Sandy shouted with laughter and his uncle smiled as he answered, "No, child, jackaroo is the name given to the young fellows who are new at the station and just learning Australian customs.
The jackaroo yard-boy, aforesaid, volunteered to take it up, and while he was gone there were hints of hysterics from the kitchen, and the boss whispered in his turn to the crowd over the bar.
Rushton on Jackaroostill two lengths in front looked round and saw he could do nothing.
Indeed, as Jackaroo sprawled down the straight, still hanging to the quarters of the mare, he looked like a towel-rail on which wet clothes had been hung, and Rushton had ceased to ride.
Jackaroo might be old, but he was still as good a two-miler as any in England.
Either Jackaroo was coming back to her, or she was coming up with the old horse.
There’s a curse in store for that jackaroo As down by the wall he slants-- And the ringer bends with his legs askew And wishes he’d ‘patched them pants.
The Jackaroo made no remark But peeled and waded in, And soon the Man from Ironbark Had three teeth less to grin!
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