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express his unrestrained admiration of Mr. Rex’s sarcasm.
‘Ain’t the Dandy a one’er?’ said he.
‘Are you thinking of coming the pious?’ asked Rex. ‘It’s no
good with North. Wait until the highly-intelligent Meekin
comes. You can twist that worthy successor of the Apostles
round your little finger!’
‘Silence there!’ cries the overseer. ‘Do you want me to re-
port yer?’
Amid such diversions the days rolled on, and Rufus
Dawes almost longed for the Coal Mines. To be sent from
the settlement to the Coal Mines, and from the Coal Mines
to the settlement, was to these unhappy men a ‘trip”. At
Port Arthur one went to an out-station, as more fortunate
people go to Queenscliff or the Ocean Beach now-a-days for
‘change of air”.

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