The words of the jackeroo the night before had struck home.
One horse began kicking up, so, to give him no time for further pranks, I drove at a good round gallop, which quickly left the lovable jackeroo a speck in the distance.
Warrigal was the first away, with Endymion and The Gift in close attendance; Young Romeo was unfortunate, and brought up the rear with The Jackeroo and Blush Rose.
At this yearly festival every owner, manager, jackeroo and rouseabout, within a hundred miles of the course, makes it a point of honour to be present.
Every time we looked back it raised its hat, and as we rode at the head of our orderly little cavalcade of pack horses, with Jackeroo the black "boy" bringing up the rear, we flattered ourselves on the dignity of our departure.
Immovable"; and after tugging valiantly at it for nearly half an hour, the Maluka and Mac and Jackeroo proved the truth of the bushman's irony.
Mac roared with delight, and the passage of the Fergusson having swept away the last lingering torch of restraint he called to the Maluka; "Jackeroo reckons he's tamed the shrew for us.
Then, as Jackeroo was the only available "boy," the others all being on before with the cattle, we gathered together our immense team of horses and drove them out of camp.
We learned later that Jackeroo had tried to run up Jimmy's hands to illustrate the performance in camp, and, failing, had naturally blamed Jimmy, causing report to add that the Maluka was a very Samson in strength.
A Briton of the Billingsgate type would have appealed to Jackeroo as a man of sound common sense.
Jackeroo became convulsed with laughter, but the Maluka pulled hard, and I was soon on the right side of the river, declaring that I preferred experiences when they were over.
And bubbling over with affection for the whole world, he sent Jackeroo off for mistletoe, and presently the ham, all brave in Christmas finery, was hanging like a gay wedding-bell in the kitchen doorway.
He was a groom with a place at his master's table; he was a jackeroo who introduced station life into a town.
The Sydney jackeroorose impulsively, but Jack glanced at him, and he sat down again.
The jackeroo gave the line a turn round his wrist; before anyone could see him in time to suppress him, he lifted the bucket, swung it to and fro, and dropped it cleverly into the water.
They picked up the jackeroo about a mile down the river, clinging to a snag, and when we hauled him aboard he looked like something the cat had dragged in, only bigger.
The jackeroo at the end of the verandah had awakened from his drunken sleep, but had not moved.
Tally, sir," the jackeroo rejoined, and urged his horse to the front.
The jackeroo had appeared on the scene from his own room, to which his sensitive soul ever banished him betimes.
Moya and the jackeroo were ambling leisurely behind, and nothing could have been more natural than Moya's questions.
The jackeroo was sweeping the horizon for pure inexplicable delight in its dirty greens and yellows; but had quite forgotten that he ought already to have been scouring it for sheep.
Rigden, riding up; and the jackeroo felt justified in speaking strictly for himself; and thought it so like Miss Bethune not to compromise him by saying how near to the hut they had been: for Moya said nothing at all.
Two thousand one hundred and seventy-two," replied the jackeroo promptly.
But there's nothing to be actually ashamed of in an illusion or two," the jackeroo was being assured, "especially at your age.
The jackeroo was a new chum who had done pretty badly at his public school, and was going to do worse in the bush, but he still knew Latin from Greek when he heard it, and he perceived his chance of scoring off the storekeeper.
It was with difficulty he could hold his tongue until the jackeroo had turned his horse adrift and betaken himself to the bachelors' hut euphemistically yclept "the barracks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jackeroo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
