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HE WAS working on a station in the Western when I knew him	A
And he came from Conongamo up the old surveyors track	B
And the fellows all admitted that no man in Vic could do him	A
Since he d smothered Stonewall Menzie also Anderson the black	B
Bob was modelled for a fighter but he d run to beef a trifle	C
For his science every rouseabout was satisfied to vouch	D
And Red Fogarty advised us he delivered like a rifle	C
And his stopping well beside him Harry Sallars was a slouch	D
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Not a man of us had met him till he settled on the station	E
This was early in the Sixties what we call the good old days	F
And it s cheerfully admitted Robert owed his reputation	E
To a crippled jaw a broken nose and eyes that looked both ways	F
We were certain on the face of it our guess was not an error	G
Every feature of his phiz was marked his chin was pulled askew	H
And The Critic passed the office Bet your buttons he s a terror	G
That s the man who hammered Kelly on The Creek in Fifty two	H
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Bob was not a shrinking blossom and he held the first impressions	I
By his subsequent admissions to the ringers and the mugs	J
And he let himself be tickled into casual confessions	I
Of his battles with the bruisers and the scientific pugs	I
How he d mangled Matty Hardy was his earliest narration	E
He d completely flummoxed Kitchen and had made the climate hot	K
For Maloney Fee and Curran It was quite a consolation	E
When he graciously informed us that he hadn t licked the lot	K
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The arrival of the Wonder gave a spurt to local science	I
And we had an exhibition every evening in the week	L
For the lightest joke was answered in the lingo of defiance	I
And our blood was cast like water on the grasses by the creek	L
Every fellow but the stranger had his scrap or rough and tumble	C
No one thought of looking ugly at the slugger Battered Bob	M
And whene er the boys addressed him twas in language choice and humble	C
Though they ached to see him beaten none was anxious for the job	M
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How we honoured Bob and yielded to his later information	E
Let him lead in all the arguments and gently run the ranche	D
And a very small potato was the owner of the station	E
By the man who slaughtered Melody and fought a draw with Blanche	D
Battered Bob became our champion our boss and by degrees he	N
Sent his fame down to the Wannon and right up to Spooner s Gap	O
And he scooped the honours smiling and he held them just as easy	N
For we d never seen him shape yet and he hadn t fought a tap	O
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We d a cook whose name was Han Cat he was short and fat and yellow	P
Just a common ugly Chinky with a never ending smile	Q
Bob was careful to avoid the corns of any other fellow	P
But he filled Han Cat with sorrow and he whaled him all the while	Q
Han Cat groaned and bore it meekly and we didn t care to figure	G
In the antics of the Champion or his little private rows	I
Robert said I like a native and I ll liquor with a nigger	G
But I hate the skin and colour of these sanguinary Chows	I
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On a certain Sunday morning Robert slyly cut a section	E
Off the pig tail of the pagan twas Han s glory and his pride	R
But the trouble that came after is his saddest recollection	E
And the boys were so disgusted that they very nearly died	R
Han Cat wept a while and then he turned and scowled as black as thunder	G
And he cursed the grinning spoiler till he had to stop for breath	S
When he shaped up like a Christian and he waltzed into the Wonder	G
We arranged a ring and waited for the heathen s sudden death	S
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Oh the sorrow of that Sunday Oh the shame and degradation	E
The chaps were simply paralyzed and everyone was dumb	T
For the heathen pushed the battle in the fashion of our nation	E
And he countered in a way that made the Wonder fairly hum	T
Bob is fooling Han we murmured he ll surprise him in a minute	U
Soon he ll rise to this occasion and display his proper form	V
But alas we d nursed a viper for our pug was never in it	W
And he couldn t battle well enough to keep the Pagan warm	V
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Han Cat beat our battered champion beat the conqueror of Menzie	N
And he towed him round the paddock like a dummy stuffed with hair	X
And we never stirred to interfere and stop the Chinky s frenzy	N
When he jumped upon the Wonder in a manner most unfair	X
You must fancy all our sorrow and our shame and indignation	E
For pen can never never tell how horrified we felt	Y
In the morning Little Finney for the credit of the station	E
Hammered Han in stylish fashion with one fist tucked in his belt	Y
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As for Robert we discussed him in a serious convention	E
And resolved that we were victims of a duffer s awful skite	Y
And we put it up to tar him but he dropped to our intention	E
And he skipped without a character for Hamilton that night	Y
There s a moral boys Don t think a mangled boko is a token	E
That a fellow is a fighter as a simple thing of course	I
Like Battered Bob he may have had his features bent and broken	E
Through his carelessness when drunk in being walked on by a horse	I

Edward George Dyson

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