You can't go about the world being nothing, but if you are a traveller you have to carry a bag, while if you are a swagman you have to carry a swag, and the question is: Which is the heavier?
They left Henderson to his horticulturing and walked on till they met a Parrot who was a Swagman, or a Swagman who was a Parrot.
Well, the only thing left to tell you is where the swagman came in.
Something like a vice gripped the swagman by the leg, and he dropped Norah's wrist and bridle and roared like any bull.
The Hermit's first words had told him that this was no common swagman that Norah had picked up.
The swagman sat down on the ground and nursed his leg.
The years have gone over with many a change, And there comes an old swagman from over the range, And faint 'neath the weight of his rain-sodden load, He suddenly thinks of the inn by the road.
He silhouettes a swagman in a couple of pages, and the man is there, alive.
Before reaching it, I saw, crossing the flat in the direction of the Victorian river road, a swagman whom I recognised in the distance as my friend Andy.
I was within a quarter of a mile of the swagmanwhen the buggy overtook him.
The longer I smoked, the more charmed I was with the rounded symmetry and steady lustre of that pearl of truth which the swagman had brought forth out of his treasury.
The driver drew up to a walk, apparently yarning with Mungo; and I nearly tumbled off my horse when I saw him stop on the off lock, and wait whilst the swagman deposited bluey on the foot-board and himself on the seat.
But the pipe, being now master of the position, gently seduced my mind to a wider consideration, merely using the swagman as a convenient spring-board for its flight into regions of the Larger Morality.
That swagman had a history, highly important, at all events, to himself.
That was the name of the grandest horse In all the district from east to west In every show ring, on every course They always counted the Swagman best.
He rode all night and he steered his course By the shining stars with a bushman's skill, And every time that he pressed his horse The Swagman answered him gamely still.
For faster horses might well be found On racing tracks, or a plain's extent, But few, if any, on broken ground Could see the way that the Swagman went.
And we thought of the hint that the swagman gave When he went to the Great Unseen -- We shovelled the skeleton out of the grave To see what his hint might mean.
And his wife got round, and an oath he passed, So long as he or one of his breed Could raise a coin, though it took their last The Swagman never should want a feed.
Old Kiley seldom used to roam, He liked to make the Run his home, The swagman never turned away With empty hand at close of day From Kiley's Run.
Born and bred on the mountain side, He could race through scrub like a kangaroo, The girl herself on his back might ride, And the Swagman would carry her safely through.
The lonely swagman through the dark Must hump his swag past Chandos Park.
Let's hang the billy on a twig, and that old swagman that's coming along will think there's angels in the Bush.
At Coongarrie I gave a swagman a lift, and he helped me with the camels and loads, until at last Coolgardie was reached.
Every mile or so the swagman seems to stop, build a fire, and brew his draught of tea, which he makes strong enough to take the place of the firiest swig of whiskey.
I've seen an old swagman boil his tea for an actual half-hour, till the resultant concoction was as thick and black as New Orleans molasses.
The existence of the swagman is the happiest vagrant's life in the world.
No sign of a patch, or an attempt at mending anywhere about his clothes, and that is a bad sign; when a swagman leaves off mending or patching his garments, his case is about hopeless.
We saw another swagman about a mile on struggling away from the town, through mud and water.
The swagman turned slowly and regarded cabby with a quiet grin.
You could go to the brink of eternity so far as Australia is concerned and yet meet an animated mummy of a swagman who will talk of going "out back.
We saw one of the storekeepers give a dead-beat swagman five shillings' worth of rations to take him on into Queensland.
An overland tramp from Sydney to Melbourne in the garb and character of a swagman seemed to offer special inducements.
Time after time has one observed the tramping shepherd or swagman and his dog.
His nearest counterpart is the swagman or pedestrian labourer.
Not that the partially renovated swagman or bullock-driver sat at meat with the correctly attired squatter, station-manager, or commercial traveller.
Up and down this country I travel, don’t you see, I’m a swagman on the wallaby, Oh!
A swagmanhad happened to call at the station that morning; he asked for work and then for tucker.
But a swagman can throw a heavy swag in a nearly vertical position against his spine, slung from one shoulder only and without any balance, and carry it as easily as you might wear your overcoat.
It was the first time that a swagmanhad been turned away from the station without tucker.
In the dusk I mistook the swagman for a stray aboriginal who had survived the destruction of his tribe, but on approaching nearer, I found that he was, or at least once had been, a white man.
Seven years afterwards, as I was riding home about sundown through Tarraville, I observed a solitary swagman sitting before a fire, among the ruins of an old public house, like Marius meditating among the ruins of Carthage.
The swagman said: "You'll find me as good a man as ever you met in your life.
The swagman dodged and parried, and soon put in a swinging blow on the left temple.
A valid claim to satisfaction was thus established, and the swagman showed a disposition to enforce it.
The regularswagman carrying his ration bags, which will sometimes contain nearly twenty days' provender in flour and sugar and tea.
Under the electric light in the quadrangle of the Exhibition they will give tableaux, representing the murder of a swagman by a native and the shooting of the criminal by a black tracker.
The Yarra has claimed many swagman in the end, but not all have died in full travelling costume .
The joy and hope the swagman feels Returning, after shearing, Or after six months’ tramp Out Back, He strikes the final clearing.
The swagman paused by the gap and faltered, For down the gully he feared to go, The scene in memory never altered-- The scene before him had altered so.
Ah, hope is always the keenest hearer, And fancies much when assailed by fear; The swagman thought, as the farm drew nearer, He heard the sounds that he used to hear.
He was dressed after theswagman fashion, certainly no better, and perhaps a little worse.
He remembered that it had been his impression that the swagman bore his father a grudge, and the thought made him uneasy.
