Let the man be a sundowner from far back, where life is hard, in the Australian scrubs, or let him be a clerk from some shop or office in Sydney or Melbourne.
The sundownerhad a knife in his hand and was threatening to kill the kitchen maid unless she gave him hot mutton instead of cold.
A sundowneris what you call a tramp in America," was the reply; "and he gets his name from one of his peculiarities.
Also it's safe to draw a sundowner sitting listlessly on a bench on the veranda, reading the Bulletin.
I mention this merely to show with what waste of energy the so-called sundowner often hunts for work, particularly if he happens to be the victim of any physical infirmity.
However, all this must be taken as referring back to my own apparently insignificant decision not to disturb the masterly inactivity of that sundowner under the wilga.
Oh yes, there might be an odd sundowner camp aboard of her once in a month o' Sundays; but I doubt it.
He explained that the "Sundowner" was not a bird it was a man; sundowner was merely the Australian equivalent of our word, tramp.
A servant put his head in and said: "There's a sundowner at the door wants to see you, sir.
