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    Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 02
    Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 02
    Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 02
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    Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 02

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    Gilbert Parker was a late 19th and early 20th century politician and novelist who wrote prodigiously. The British-Canadian's works are still popular in the 21st century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKrill Press
    Release dateFeb 5, 2016
    ISBN9781518396274
    Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 02
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    Gilbert Parker

    Gilbert Parker (1862–1932), also credited as Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet, was a Canadian novelist and British politician. His initial career was in education, working in various schools as a teacher and lecturer. He then traveled abroad to Australia where he became an editor at the Sydney Morning Herald. He expanded his writing to include long-form works such as romance fiction. Some of his most notable titles include Pierre and his People (1892), The Seats of the Mighty and The Battle of the Strong.

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      Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 02 - Gilbert Parker

      CUMNER’S SON AND OTHER SOUTH SEA FOLK — VOLUME 02

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      Gilbert Parker

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      Copyright © 2016 by Gilbert Parker

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      CUMNER’S SON AND OTHER SOUTH SEA FOLK

      THE HIGH COURT OF BUDGERY-GAR AN EPIC IN YELLOW DIBBS, R.N. A LITTLE MASQUERADE DERELICT OLD ROSES MY WIFE’S LOVERS THE STRANGERS’ HUT: THE HIGH COURT OF BUDGERY-GAR

      AN EPIC IN YELLOW

      DIBBS, R.N.

      A LITTLE MASQUERADE

      DERELICT

      OLD ROSES

      MY WIFE’S LOVERS

      THE STRANGERS’ HUT

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      Cumner’s Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 02

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      Gilbert Parker

      Cumner’s Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 02

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      First published circa 1932

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      CUMNER’S SON AND OTHER SOUTH SEA FOLK

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      by Gilbert Parker

      THE HIGH COURT OF BUDGERY-GAR AN EPIC IN YELLOW DIBBS, R.N. A LITTLE MASQUERADE DERELICT OLD ROSES MY WIFE’S LOVERS THE STRANGERS’ HUT: THE HIGH COURT OF BUDGERY-GAR

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      WE WERE CAMPED ON THE edge of a billabong. Barlas was kneading a damper, Drysdale was tenderly packing coals about the billy to make the water boil, and I was cooking the chops. The hobbled horses were picking the grass and the old-man salt-bush near, and Bimbi, the black boy, was gathering twigs and bark for the fire. That is the order of merit— Barlas, Drysdale, myself, the horses and Bimbi. Then comes the Cadi all by himself. He is given an isolated and indolent position, because he was our guest and also because, in a way, he represented the Government. And though bushmen do not believe much in a far-off Government—even though they say when protesting against a bad Land Law, And your Petitioners will ever Pray, and all that kind of yabber-yabber—they give its representative the lazy side of the fire and a fig of the best tobacco when he bails up a camp as the Cadi did ours. Stewart Ruttan, the Cadi, was the new magistrate at Windowie and Gilgan, which stand for a huge section of the Carpentaria country. He was now on his way to Gilgan to try some cases there. He was a new chum, though he had lived in Australia for years. As Barlas said, he’d been kept in a cultivation- paddock in Sydney and Brisbane; and he was now going to take the business of justice out of the hands of Heaven and its trusted agents the bushmen, and reduce the land to the peace of the Beatitudes by the imposing reign of law and summary judgments. Barlas had just said as much, though in different language.

      I knew by the way that Barlas dropped the damper on the hot ashes and swung round on his heel that he was in a bad temper. And so you think, Cadi, said he, that we squatters and bushmen are a strong, murderous lot; that we hunt down the Myalls—[Aborigines]—like kangaroos or dingoes, and unrighteously take justice in our own hands instead of handing it over to you?

      I think, said the Cadi, that individual and private revenge should not take the place of the Courts of Law. If the blacks commit depredations—

      Depredations! interjected Drysdale with sharp scorn.

      If they commit depredations and crimes, the Cadi continued, they should be captured as criminals are captured elsewhere and be brought in and tried. In that way respect would be shown to British law and— here he hesitated slightly, for Barlas’s face was not pleasant to see— and the statutes.

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