He isn't the only Australian by a long shot who upholds Australia by fist and boast and astounding gallantry, yet stays away from home.

You couldn't fix Jeremy with concrete; he'd find some means of bursting any mould.
He had been too long lost in the heart of Arabia for anything except the thought of Sydney Bluffs and the homesteads that lie beyond to tempt him for the first few days.
"You fellers come with me," he insisted.

"You chuck the Army, Grim, and I'll show you a country where the cows have to bend their backs to let the sun go down.

Ha-ha! Show you women too--red-lipped girls in sunbonnets, that'll look good after the splay-footed crows you see out here.

Tell you what: We'll pick up the Orient boat at Port Said--no P.
and O.for me; I'm a passenger aboard ship, not a horrible example!-- and make a wake for the Bull's Kid.