The squatters are of many races, and of many hues of black and brown.
It seemed incredible to Tom that squatters could have come in and taken possession of the place in his short absence, but there was no other explanation that seemed at all reasonable.
Squatters were not welcome on the Devil's Tooth range.
And how many hundreds of these unfortunate savages have been ruthlessly slaughtered, not only by the Black Police, but by squatters and stockmen, who deny the poor wretches the right to exist?
When such cases occur, which we are happy to say is seldom, the squatters lend to one another the articles most in demand, until they either all become destitute of provisions, or are relieved by the receipt of a fresh supply.
Besides, I believe the squattersconsider it to their interest to nourish the practice, as it keeps the men more dependent upon them.
The young squatters got running one another, as I said before, and he went up to 270 Pounds!
He did a store cattle trade with the far-out squatters that were stocking up new country in Queensland, and it paid him very well, as nearly everything did that he touched.
What he had been or done none of us ever knew, but he spoke up to one of thesquatters that said something sharp to him one day in a way that showed us boys that he thought himself as good as he was.
Jim and I used to hear him talking like this to some of the squatters whose runs we passed through, as grave as you please.
The squatters draw too many to know the numbers of half that are out, so there's no great chance of their being stopped.
First one and then another of the squatters that was going in for breeding began to bid, thinking he'd go cheap, until they got warm, and the bull went up to a price that we never dreamed he'd fetch.
Except the squatters and overseers, the other people's mostly a shady lot.
That conch will bring all the tribe of the squatters upon you in two or three minutes; the young men are close at hand, in the stream below the mill, at work on the logs, and have only the banks to climb.
What would be the effect of an attack on the squatters it was not easy to predict, since the last might make battle; and, small as was their force, it would be likely to prove very available in a struggle of that nature.
Should he reach Ravensnest, the first thing he'd do would be to swear out warrants ag'n us all, and Newcome is not the man to stand by squatters in trouble.
The squatters might have declared the road open to me, but the needle does not point more unerringly to the pole than I should have followed my magnet, though at liberty.
The walk I selected was between the group of squattersand the house, and at each turn it necessarily brought me close to the young men.
Some of our side returned the discharge, and the squatters then took to flight.
The squatters were not unkind to us prisoners in the way of general treatment.
I've heern say there was squatters down hereabouts; but such things are so common, that I never bethought me of givin' him a hint on the matter when I last saw the major.
The firing you have heard, comes from the party of Frank Malbone, which has just arrived, and which has driven off the squatters by noise more than by any harm that has been done them.
The Dingo Boys; or, The Squatters of Wallaby Range, by George Manville Fenn.
First the straying squatters settled here, to cultivate chosen spots of the valley and reduce them to order.
The farmers, for their part, were still veritable country folk, inheritors themselves of a set of rural traditions nearly akin to those of the peasant squatters in this valley.
Of the period and manner of that first change I have already given a hint, attributing it indefinitely to a slow immigration of squatters somewhere in the eighteenth century.
The government was in earnest; and the squatters were extruded by the troops of the Department of the Missouri.
It may be imagined how such a family would be hated by the respectable squatters on whom they preyed.
I declare I think that squatters have more trouble than any people in the world," said Kate Daly.
Old squatters whom he knew, respectable men who had been in the colony before he was born, had advised him to be on good terms with the Brownbies.
The squatters here are what the lords and the country gentlement are at home.
The squatters regarded him as an interloper, and as a man holding opinions directly averse to their own interests- -in which they were right.
Louis, don't you think we might go up country and besquatters like uncle?
Lot of new squatters--small squatters without two fardens to rub together and make a chink.
Squatters and speculators were already preparing to swarm in, set up their marks on the choicest spots, and establish what were called pre-emption rights.
The squatters are the richer folk and in a position to influence the public opinion of the world, and in their anxiety to exploit their own grievance they seem to have had little regard for the reputation of their country.
For the record, better make it that I have squatters I want evicted.
Shearers' Union representative) at this shed, butsquatters and station managers respected him as much as the men did.
Squatters they were appropriately named, because they paid no attention to land titles, but stuck their shacks wherever fancy indicated or convenience dictated.
He knew his implacable hatred of the squatters and particularly of Tessibel.
You know he's quite partial to the squatters and always did things for 'em.
Daddy Skinner was a favorite with the inhabitants of the Silent City, and now that he was so ill, all the other squatters did what they could for his sorrowing daughter.
Ebenezer's trouble about the squatters centered about Andy Bishop and the Skinner girl; the dwarf was certainly a little man and Tessibel had wonderful red curls.
She might let the squatters kill her; she might even do it herself.
I won't have those squatters there, and your brother can make up his mind to that!
What were the squatters going to do with Waldstricker's daughter?
His disputes with Deforrest about the squatters had not turned out to his satisfaction.
To be sure, he'd lived with this possibility ever since he'd brought the squatters from the shack, but the lapse of time had developed a sense of security which the girl's question rudely shattered.
If he'd let me alone, I'd had all the squatters off the lake side before this and probably would have located Bishop.
Why, she goes among the squattersdaily and would be likely to know if Bishop sneaked into any of their huts.
Then, lick 'er," growled Longman, and the other squatters muttered their approval.
Accordingly the history of Iowa and Wisconsin is full of the claims associations by which the squatters endeavored to protect their rights and succeeded well.
The problem of government was born when the first squatters ran the lines of Denver City.
But they continued to occupy a part of Illinois, and when squatters jumped their cornfields near Rock Island, the pacific counsels of old Keokuk were less acceptable than the warlike promises of the able brave Black Hawk.
It was more than two months after the arrival of the squatters at Lawrence before the first governor of the new territory, Andrew H.
Neither squatters nor townsfolk will admit that this view of the former's position is exactly correct.
Two or three years of drought then follow, and all the more enterprising squatters are soon ruined, with a gain, however, sometimes of a few thousand square miles of country to civilization.
The squatters are themselves buying largely of land, and thus profiting by the free selection.
The leading merchants and squatters of Victoria are in favor of it; but not so those of the poorer or less populous colonies, where there is much fear of being swamped.
Hitherto few colonists or squatters had been seen.
The squatters had come to their aid, and exerted themselves to extinguish the fire, which consumed the heap of ruins with unconquerable fierceness.
In the isolated towns and stations the inhabitants and squatters took precautions against any attack or surprise.
The inhabitants of the cities, and the colonists and squatters of the stations, are warned to be on their guard, and requested to send to the undersigned any information which may assist his investigations.
He regarded squatters who required accommodation as patients subject to mild attacks of epidemic disease, which usually gave way to proper medical, that is to say financial, treatment.
No wonder those ruffianly agricultural agitators think we squatters never do any work, and ought to have our runs taken away and given to the poor.
Mrs. Smith followed for some distance, disparaging everybody concerned, and invoking curses upon the innocent heads of all the squatters in Riverina, but finally consented to avail herself of the carriage.
They are said to be led by the notorious Redcap, and to have stated that they were coming into the Warroo frontage to give the squatters a turn.
I'm blowed if I'd knock myself up, at this time of year, for all the squattersin the blessed country.
It's dogs like you, too, as give working-men a bad name, and makes the squatters harder upon the lot of us than they would be.
But I was fool enough to think all squatters were alike, and let my agents send me anywhere they liked.
The squatters had, on the whole, been their best, their most solvent customers.
I dare say the squatters would have that done if they could.
These places became so intolerable that the commandant begged the War Department to require all squatters to get off the reservation.
All squatters were ordered to depart and all persons were forbidden to attempt purchases of land from the Indians.
On the completion of the surveyor’s work, the squatters formed a so-called “Equal Rights and Impartial Protection Claim Association of Hennepin County, M.
In such a tract, squatters and trespassers were tolerated to an extent now unknown.
Most squattershave titles; M'Intyre had two, which were used indifferently; one of these was derived from the hunger, the other from the eczema.
But if they had owned all the land they secured for M'Gregor, by perjury, and personation, and straightforward dummyism, they would have been little squatters themselves.
Among the opponents of separation had been certain squatters who sought to place the capital of the new colony in some more geographically central place than Brisbane.
To such an extent was the right of preemption used that many squatters seriously crippled themselves, the price paid being too high for grazing to be remunerative on their freehold lands.
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