He was highly complimented on getting the swag back," added Denham, smiling ironically, "but the thieves unfortunately escaped.
Each boot was broken at the toe, And he'd a swag upon his back.
After the first two miles, this same kind friend insisted on taking my swag as well as his own, and I found that though I invariably began the day's tramp with swag on my back, I was not often allowed to carry it far.
Nawthin' o' the sort's in the swag we took with the raskil.
In front of him was a huge swag containing the unidentifiable gold, three watches, three rings, silk stuffs, three pairs of elastic-side boots.
There was some sort of gratification for ill-doing, for the swag contained a fortune.
Keep your mout closed and lave me to do the bizinis me own road," shouted Tim as he disappeared in the dust, led horse, swag and all.
The horses stood limply, as much out of the shade as in, the big swag leaned against the wall, the handcuffs lay half buried in the dust, but Tsing Hi had vanished.
I found out that theswag is in a safe upstairs on the second floor.
He said to-night he'd go to Californy if he got swag enough here.
I'd met just the same sort of woman years before while I was carrying swag between the shearing-sheds in the awful scrubs out west of the Darling river, so I didn't turn on my heels and walk away.
Perhaps he'd had a hard life, and carried a big swag of trouble that we didn't know anything about.
We used to turn our swag over to Lena's sister's husband, Max, who would give us about one-sixth of its value.
She walked so straight that I thought she had got nothing, but when we entered a saloon a block away, and the swag was produced, I was forced to laugh.
A man who can open a locked safe through a closed door is just the sort of fellow who would be able to get rid of the swag neatly while rolling about the floor with the valet.
Then she wrapped herself in the blanket the black boy took from the swag and, lying down, was soon sound asleep.
Trains of camels carry the swag of the miners across the sandy deserts.
Now stockman Bill camped out that night, And he hobbled his horse in a sheltered bight; Next day of old Joe he found not a track, So he had to trudge home with his swag on his back.
For twelve long months I had to pace, Humping my swag with a cadging face, Sleeping in the bush, like the sable race, As in my song you’ll understand.
I saw the squatter with his beard, And up to him I boldly steered, With myswag and billy-can.
A wool bale went overboard, and took a swag and a dog with it; then the owner of the swag and dog and the crew of the boat had a swearing match between them.
I rolled out my swag on the boughs, got my pipe, tobacco, and matches handy in the crown of a spare hat, and lay down.
After a bit I got wild--if Mitchell was going to go on like that he might as well have taken his swag and gone with the Lachlan.
So far as the second swag is concerned, I have come to demand half of it.
The first swag you received long ago, and all I had for my share was some honeyed words of compliment in the stories you wrote.
The Adventure of the Second Swag The time was Christmas Eve, 1904.
This is what they call Matilda," he told her, weighing theswag in his hand.
Noticing dead branches hanging by thin strips of bark Marcella made a lasso with the swag straps and pulled them down.
All I've got to say are, that the swag shud be eekilly divided.
I means what I've saved--that the swag shud be eekilly divided.
I brought them to the waterside, and fell to making myself a kind of rough platform, which should suffice for myself and my swag if I could only stick to it.
The outside of my swag had got completely wet; but, on undoing the blankets, I found things warm and dry within.
I could not swim and carry my swag, and I dared not leave my swag behind me.
My swag was wet upon the outside, and I was myself dripping; but I had gained my point, and knew that my difficulties were for a time over.
I now launched it, made my swag fast to the middle, and got on to it myself, keeping in my hand one of the longest blossom stalks, so that I might punt myself across as long as the water was shallow enough to let me do so.
As soon as it was ended, they proceeded to overhaul my swag and the contents of my pockets.
Good enough; I'll bet my share of the swag they go for a ramble.
Say, young fellow, just hand over the swag you've stolen so we can return it to the owner and we'll let you off.
As Whero drew nearer, he saw theswag was a new one.
Reluctant as he must have been, he was forced to buy his swag at one or other of the would-be townships, with their fine names, which dot the lower reaches of the bush road.
He knew that Burton had been making concessions to him throughout their journey, that he could have walked miles further in the time without fatigue, carrying his swag as jauntily as if it were a butterfly poised on his back.
Any man that gits this place will hump hisswag from it in five years, mark me!
The Chinaman lighted a slush-lamp, by whose flickering light Charlie produced from his swag a small bundle of papers, and threw them on the table.
Sorry to take the water-bag; but through you I've forgot mine and my swag too.
And what with a swaggy whose swag had been stolen, and his description of the man who he swore had stolen it, I at last got on the tracks of the man I've lost.
The guy probably lamped the swag an' died of heart failure," suggested another.
