原文 (英语)

SEND ROUND THE HAT Now this is the creed from the Book of the Bush— Should be simple and plain to a dunce: “If a man’s in a hole you must pass round the hat Were he jail-bird or gentleman once.” “Is it any harm to wake yer?” It was about nine o’clock in the morning, and, though it was Sunday morning, it was no harm to wake me; but the shearer had mistaken me for a deaf jackaroo, who was staying at the shanty and was something like me, and had good-naturedly shouted almost at t