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Brookong station lay half asleep	A
Dozed in the waning western glare	B
'Twas before the run had stocked with sheep	A
And only cattle depastured there	B
As the Bluccap mob reined up at the door	C
And loudly saluted Featherstonhaugh	D
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My saintly preacher the leader cried	E
I stand no nonsense as you're aware	B
I've a word for you if you'll step outside	E
just drop that pistol and have a care	B
I'll trouble you too for the key of the store	C
For we're short of tucker friend Featherstonhaugh	D
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The muscular Christian showed no fear	F
Though he handed the key with but small delay	G
He never answered the ruffian's jeer	F
Except by a look which seemed to say	G
Beware my friend and think twice before	C
You raise the devil in Featherstonhaugh	D
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Two hours after he reined his horse	H
Up in Urana and straightway went	I
To the barracks the trooper was gone of course	H
Blindly nosing a week old scent	I
Away in the scrub around Mount Galore	C
Confound the fellow quoth Featherstonhaugh	D
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Will any man of you come with me	J
And give this Bluecap a dressing down	K
They all regarded him silently	J
As he turned his horse with a scornful frown	K
You're curs the lot of you to the core	C
I'll go by myself said Featherstonhaugh	D
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The scrub was thick on Urangeline	K
As he followed the tracks that twisted through	L
The box and dogwood and scented pine	K
One of their horses had cast a shoe	L
Steeped from his youth in forest lore	C
He could track like a nigger could Featherstonhaugh	D
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He paused as he saw the thread of smoke	M
From the outlaw camp and he marked the sound	N
Of a hobble check as it sharply broke	M
The silence that held the scrub land bound	N
There were their horses two three four	C
It's a risk but I'll chance it quoth Featherstonhaugh	D
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He loosened the first and it walked away	G
But his comrade's sfience could not be bought	O
For he raised his head with a sudden neigh	P
And plainly showed that he'd not be caught	O
As a bullet sang from a rifle bore	C
It's time to be moving quoth Featherstonhaugh	D
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The brittle pine as they broke away	G
Crackled like ice in a winter's ponds	Q
The strokes fell fast on the cones that lay	G
Buried beneath the withered fronds	Q
That softly carpet the sandy floor	C
Swept two on the tracks of Featherstonhaugh	D
	-
They struck that path that the stock had made	R
A dustily red well beaten track	S
The leader opened a fusillade	R
Whose target was Featherston's stooping back	S
But his luck was out not a bullet tore	C
As much as a shred from Featherstonhaugh	D
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Rattle 'em rattle 'em fast on the pad	T
Where the sloping shades fell dusk and dim	U
The manager's heart beat high and glad	T
For he knew the creek was a mighty swim	U
Already he heard a smothered roar	C
They're done like a dinner quoth Featherstonhaugh	D
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It was almost dark as they neared the dam	V
He struck the crossing as true as a hair	B
For the space of a second the pony swam	V
Then shook himself in the chill night air	B
In a pine tree shade on the further shore	C
With his pistol cocked stood Featherstonhaugh	D
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A splash an oath and a rearing horse	H
A thread snapped short in the fateful loom	W
The tide unaltered swept on its course	H
Though a fellow creature had met his doom	W
Pale and trembling and struck with awe	X
Bluccap stood opposite Featherstonhaugh	D
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While the creek rolled muddily in between	K
The eddies played with the drowned man's hat	Y
The stars peeped out in the summer sheen	K
A night bird chirruped across the flat	Y
Quoth Bluecap I owe you a heavy score	C
And I'll live to repay it Featherstonhaugh	D
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But he never did for he ran his race	Z
Before he had time to fulfil his oath	A2
can't think how but in any case	Z
He was hung or drowned or maybe both	A2
But whichever it was he came no more	C
To trouble the peace of Featherstonhaugh	D

Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake

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