Show WHERE DIALECT RUNS WILD of the alsot in use amlak au if the specimen of australian dialect which gilbert parker gives in the idler is a fair sample of what we may expect when dialect writers begin to work up that country we have not yet seen alie worst here is a little story which reads like a missing word puzzle or a cipher telegram tell ye ow it was I1 toddles off to the shed pulls down me tongs auls out a bloomin papillion and was goin down the whippin side both blades easily load-ed wen the boss drops and shot me dead I1 takes a op skip an a jump back to the ut put two folds in the old slings the og ide on the tall crocodile goes up the river like a frog tats down along sleepy jims muster and strips a hundred and forty by four next and here is the inter-prreettaattiioonn chich sir parker ib kind enough to furnish us thia is how it happened I1 walked off to alic shearing shed took down my shears hauled out a sheep and I1 was clipping down the right hand side with all my might when the manager came and discharged me- i went back to the eliut folded up my blanket put the sad-dle on my horse galloped up the river stopped at sleepy jims sheep pen and shore a hundred and forty by four next day |