When Flo resolved to go to town from brothers three a yell went up,
Predicting ruin and distress. Bill in his horror dropped a cup.
-Gorstruth!� he said, -in Sydney there what is a simple girl to do?
They took me down. I lost me watch and seven quid. What -ope for you?�

Ben turned on her in pale dismay. -Look here, me girl, ain-t you bin told
How one iv them there spieler blokes done me for twenty pound in gold?
He was as nice a gentleman as any in the blessed shops:
He got away with all I had, and took a luner at the cops.�

-Me, too,� said Dave, -that time I went to Sydney town to see the Show
One trimmed me for me bran- new suit. You stay where we can watch you, Flo.�
Flo packed. -If spieler comes at me his finish will be sharp,� she said;
And when the boys next heard of her she-d got a bloke, and then was wed.

She wrote: -He-s rather nice, I think, and I am putting him to work.
Next Chrissmiss we are comin- up to see yous people back o- Bourke.�
And when he came he brought for Bill a silver watch and seven quid,
For Dave a bran- new suit of check, a ruby tie-pin and a lid.

To Ben he handed twenty pounds, in nice new minted sovereigns, too.
And still the brothers gaped at him, and still their great amazement grew.
He was a natty kind of chap, with gentle manners, small and slim.
And when they spoke -twas as one man. -So -elp me cat,� they said, -it-s -im!�