Dinner Camp Visitor
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Dinner Camp unwanted Visitor
Dinner camp at 12 noon was when the drover slept, (Aussie tradition dinner camp)
Up since daylight and before the birdies left their nest,
A Mulga snake was irritated by part dingo cattle dogs...(Australian Shepherd)
They’d nipped him jerked upon his tail in and out of hollow logs, (snake killers)
7 foot 4 they measured him, brown killer of the bush, (100% worse than Cobra)
I woke in time to see him a striking at my moosh, (face)
The bite was on my thumb tip, the sharp pocket knife cut it off.
I grabbed and killed old brownie and limply let him flop. (banged his head on tree)
I sucked and spat his venom, until the blood flow stopped,
Condys crystal on the bite and bandaged a lot,
Remedy of Australia way back in 1950, when,
A tornaquet above the bite might keep you alive my friend.
As old Drover Don said…Don Johnson
Aussies were known to shoot a finger off after being bitten to be rid of
the deadly poison venom. Death was the other option here.
You could survive in the bush of Australia with a box of matches
and a very sharp pocket knife.
Mulga is a bushy tree 13% protein when there ain't no grass to grow,
will keep horses, cattle and Kangaroos alive in the often drought!
Copyright © Don Johnson | Year Posted 2011
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