Why, if I'd had as much courage as a wallaby I should have kicked that thing out of the water; and all I did was to lay hold of a bough and holler murder!
I never saw a country where less game was to be obtained; what euro and wallaby are here are so very wild there is no getting near them.
Saw traces of kangaroo, emu, andwallaby on our way here yesterday.
From the highest part of East Wallaby Island we discovered a patch of land bearing North-West 1/2 North eleven miles.
As there is no record of the Dutch having visited the northern group, it is impossible to say whether wallaby were then found on it or not.
We found a new kind of kangaroo and wallaby on Barrow's Island; but the only specimen obtained of the former was destroyed through the neglect of the person in whose charge it was left.
During the whole time of our ramble, we saw only three kangaroos, and five emus; and in some parts of the tall scrub werewallaby tracks.
A reef, which dries in patches at low-water, connects the east and west Wallaby Islands.
Returning one day, they were surprised to find their huts well supplied with wallaby by the native women.
The tail tapered away like a rat's, and the flesh was by no means good to eat, tasting very strong; this was the only instance in which we found wallaby at all unpalatable.
We shall now fulfil our promise to the reader by laying before him the result of Mr. Bynoe's interesting observations on the Marsupiata, which the number of wallaby killed at Houtman's Abrolhos afforded him the means of perfecting.
Half a mile west from Slaughter Point we found two caverns similar to that on East Wallaby Island, from which we got three tons of excellent water.
Many ages ago he seems to have fallen through the roof of the cavern, and the bones of a wallaby hard by give some indication that he was hunting at the time, and that his quarry shared his fate.
A half-wild wallaby appeared during our visit, and after some coyness yielded to the fascination which my wife exercises over all animals, and fed out of her hand.
A motherless wallaby would have submitted to human solace and ministrations with daintier mien; but the whole household thrilled with excitement.
Before dawn the boot was working freely, and with one arm on the compressed body of the wallaby to case my weight, rest was possible.
Bill gave a deal of time and attention to Jess that night, but Finn was fed royally on roughly cooked wallaby steaks and damper.
The type to which Wallaby Bill belonged is not a very rare one in Australia.
As a fact, he was in no real need of killing, for he had fed during the afternoon on the remains of the wallaby he had dragged up the hill early that morning.
For the time he had forgotten the fifteen-foot leap of the rock wallaby that he had witnessed on the day after his escape from the circus.
It was only during the last few months that a manager had been placed in charge of the station, and during his time Wallaby Bill had stuck closely to his work.
But, unlike the snake, the wallaby inspired him with no sort of fear, possibly by reason of its evident fear of him.
Having accomplished this, he slung the wallaby over his shoulder and set out for the mountain, meaning to allow the family to feast upon this early kill, while he took a further look round upon the trails.
They scorned the lesser creatures whose flesh had fed them hitherto, and expected to taste wallaby or kangaroo flesh every night.
Wallaby Bill's pipe had burned itself out before the hounds tired of their play and stretched themselves upon the ground, Jess lying a good yard and a half nearer to the fire than Finn ventured.
As he spoke, the man called Wallaby Bill flung Finn a solid chunk of very indigestible damper, which the Wolfhound gratefully disposed of with two bites and three gulps, before plainly asking for more.
Behind Tasman, burdened with the weight of a fat wallaby which he dragged over one shoulder, marched Lupus, his son, now almost four years old and the acknowledged master of Mount Desolation.
The squatters thought us done when they fenced in all their run, But a prettier mistake they never made; You’ve only to sport your dover and knock a monkey over— There’s cheap mutton for the Wallaby Brigade.
Quondong duff, paddy-melon pie, and wallaby Irish stew We used to eat while reaping for the stringy-bark cockatoo.
When you are leaving camp, you must ask some brother tramp If there are any jobs to be had, Or what sort of a shop that station is to stop For a member of the Wallaby Brigade.
Jack, “it’s all up with me now, For I never again shall my saddle regain, Nor bound like a wallabyover the plain.
Now when the shearing’s in our harvest will begin, Our swags for a spell down will be laid; But when our cheques are drank we will join the Tag-rag rank, Limeburners in the Wallaby Brigade.
The Fitzroy wallaby was plentiful, and the Leader shot an emeu.
They were neatly made, jagged at the head with wallaby bones, and intended for throwing in the Wommerah or throwing stick.
I'm Duke Lawless to you here and henceforth, as ever I was then, on the wallaby track.
From different species of wallaby (Halmaturus) Mr Gerard Krefft has given more or less complete descriptions of two tapeworms (Tænia fimbriata, and T.
From the abdominal cavity of a wallaby Leidy has also obtained a filaria (F.
It was all through a man of the Curlew totem, who finding some men of the Little Wallaby totem burying a Little Wallaby man, fell into a passion and kicked the body into the sea.
One chap who was returning home minus a leg, gave us a young wallaby that he had brought with him from Australia.
The wallaby got drunk faster, but the donkey generally got away with more beer.
He exhaled an appreciative sigh as he powered on his Wallaby Joey and sat before it, quite literally on the edge of his seat.
Then, when the company is oriented in a compatible direction, so that Wallaby's computers can work with our big systems, ICP and Wallaby merge, but let Wallaby maintain its freedom as an independently operated subsidiary.
As I told you on the phone, Rolland mentioned to me that you were visiting Wallaby in California as a candidate for president.
For my own entertainment, I've been looking for some time at Wallaby as a case study.
To further squash the theory, he threw in a nugget about takeovers, and how FTC regulations would prevent ICP from subsuming Wallaby as long as Wallaby continued to build portable computers.
Even though he was still on the payroll at Wallaby and officially an employee, after what Matthew had told him, William felt certain that there was little hope of Jones ever going back to Wallaby.
Matthew Locke hopes that Peter will return to Wallaby soon," said Wallaby spokesperson Laurence Maupin.
Consequently - by design, if you will - few of us at Wallabyare apt to perceive an opportunity that could take advantage of ICP's Goliath size.
Matthew had put together a plan that, after they announced the Joey II computer in about a year, would demonstrate that Wallaby had grown up and was venturing into the big-business world by working a strategic deal with ICP.
Ironically, he at once understood that Wallaby - no, that he - now had ICP in a precarious position.
Said Paul Kupiec, president of PowerBase, "Wallaby really delivered with the new Joey Plus.
Analysts view the introduction of the Joey Plus as a feather in the cap of Wallaby Chairman and CEO Matthew Locke, who took the company reins from Jones after a boardroom showdown three months ago.
So what if Peter Jones and Wallaby became a part of ICP, but were left alone in California to do their thing?
The wallaby is a smaller kind of kangaroo which is also hunted.
That Miss Wallaby has thrust herself forward till she is actually a member of the Council, and she is going to deliver an address on 'The Effect of Modesty on National Morals.
I hobbled downstairs to the library, and I brought up a whole armful of the books that Mrs Albert bought when she expected Lady Wallaby was going to be able to get her an invitation to attend the Hon.
Lady-Wallaby tells me she has heard he is extremely amusing in his conversation--and quite presentable manners, too.
You know Miss Wallaby volunteered her services, and went down into the Retired Licensed Victuallers' Division of Surrey to electioneer for Sir Watkyn.
Mrs Albert continued: "Lady Wallaby expressed surprise, only last evening, that we should consent to go about among the outsiders.
A fortnight ago there was a great wallaby hunt down at Moumiri, and natives from all the districts round were present.
A man speared the other day in a wallaby hunt, near the Laroki, he told us, was dead.
The natives of the district to which the murdered man belonged are quietly biding their time, hunting wallaby close by us.
I have frequently seen these eagles swoop on to one, and, while struggling with its prey, have galloped up and secured it myself, before the dazed wallaby could collect its senses.
Both yesterday and to-day we saw some native wallaby traps in the dense scrubs; these are simply long lines of sticks, boughs, bushes, etc.
The larger wallabies, or brush-kangaroos, such as the red-necked wallaby (M.
The people at Port Haven and all about when they speak of Wallaby Range," replied Tim.
The Dingo Boys; or, The Squatters ofWallaby Range, by George Manville Fenn.
All was well when the party rode over Wallaby Range and up to Dingo Station, and saving the blackened boards and shingles, and the marks of spears, it was surprising how very little the worse the place looked.
Martha might have reminded him that she was watering and feeding the stock, and saving the wages of a hired man, while she was wearing the wallaby coat, but she said not a word.
Rabbits came and played about the Little Red House, and lizards ran over his door-step, and once a big wallaby went flopping right past the front gate.
At length Wally sneezed violently, whereat the wallaby started, regarded the disturber of his peace with an alarmed air, and finally bounded off into the scrub.
He was dressed entirely in skins--wallaby skins, Norah guessed, though there was an occasional section that looked like 'possum.
Wallaby skins thrown over the chair and upon the floor lent a look of comfort to the tiny dwelling; and a further touch of homeliness was given by many pictures cut from illustrated papers and fastened to the canvas walls.
Once a big wallaby showed for an instant, and there was a general outcry and a plunge in pursuit, but the wallaby was too quick for them, and found a safe hiding-place in the thickest of the scrub, where the ponies could not follow.
He said it was only natural, and made a further remark about the feelings of the others when "Wally and his wallaby should wallow by them" that was happily quenched by Harry, who adopted the simple plan of sitting on the orator.
We'll have a wallaby and kangaroo hunt after this.
It certainly would not have been human nature if Jim had not longed for a gun; but the wallaby was evidently quite ignorant of such a thing, and took them all in with his cool stare.
They were crossing a little gully, and a few yards on their right a big wallaby sat staring at them, gravely inquisitive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wallaby" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animal; antelope; armadillo; bat; elephant; hare; horse; kangaroo; mammal; opossum; pig; rat
