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MY oath! ' the Duchess sez. 'You'd not ixpect / Sich things as that. Yeh don't mean kangaroos? / Go hon! ' she sez, or words to that effect -- / (It's 'ard to imitate the speech they use) / I tells 'er, 'Straight; I drives 'em four-in-'and / 'Ome in my land.'
"You 'ear a lot," sez little Digger Smith, / "About 'ow English swells is so stand-off. / Don't yeh believe it; it's a silly myth. / I've been reel cobbers with the British toff / While I'm on leaf; for Blighty liked our crowd, / An' done us proud.