"He been give it," replied Dugingi, "plenty plour (flour), tea, sugar, bacca; corbon plenty."
"Gammon!" exclaimed Tom, "I know better than that."
"Bael gammon," replied the black; "he been give it I tell you, plenty;" whereupon Dugingi whispered a few words to his companions in his own dialect, and the whole sable conclave burst out into a loud laugh, and commenced an almost deafening jabbering amongst themselves. After which Dugingi and Jemmy Davis, promising faithfully to send the black boys over to the station after the corroboree, got their promised provender, and decamped.
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