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This poem is in 22 numbered parts.
Epigraph : 22. The blackfellow is a fraud. A white man can learn to throw the boomerang as well as an aborigine--even better. A blackfellow is not to be depended on with regard to direction, distance or weather. A blackfellow once offered to rake US to better water than that at which we were camping. He said it was only half-a-mile. We rolled up our swags and followed him and his gin five miles through the scrub to a mud-hole with a dead bullock in it. Alto, he said that it would rain that night; and it didn't rain there far six months. Moreover, he threw a boomerang at a rabbit and lamed one of his dogs—of which he had about 150.
- Henry Lawson, 'SOME POPULAR AUSTRALIAN MISTAKES,' published in the Bulletin, 18 November 1893.
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