Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Preface
- Foreword By John Lucas
- Prologue
- To Tasmania with Mrs Meredith
- At Sea with Mrs Meredith
- What Mr Meredith asked the Ship's Owner about Dick
- Mrs Meredith looks about her
- Mrs Meredith and Hobart Culture
- Mrs Meredith and Hunting
- Flora and Fossil
- Mrs Meredith goes a-Gypsying and enjoys a Barbecue
- The Merediths attend a Ceremony
- Mrs Meredith speaks of the Good Old Days of Privatisation …
- You Rambling Boys of Liverpool
- The Call of the Genes
- Dear Mrs Meredith
- Dear Mr Simpson
- On the Right Side of the Earth
- Epilogue
- Melbourne Central Cemetery
- Select Bibliography
What Mr Meredith asked the Ship's Owner about Dick
from To Tasmania with Mrs Meredith
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Preface
- Foreword By John Lucas
- Prologue
- To Tasmania with Mrs Meredith
- At Sea with Mrs Meredith
- What Mr Meredith asked the Ship's Owner about Dick
- Mrs Meredith looks about her
- Mrs Meredith and Hobart Culture
- Mrs Meredith and Hunting
- Flora and Fossil
- Mrs Meredith goes a-Gypsying and enjoys a Barbecue
- The Merediths attend a Ceremony
- Mrs Meredith speaks of the Good Old Days of Privatisation …
- You Rambling Boys of Liverpool
- The Call of the Genes
- Dear Mrs Meredith
- Dear Mr Simpson
- On the Right Side of the Earth
- Epilogue
- Melbourne Central Cemetery
- Select Bibliography
Summary
Dick here, Dick there, Dick everywhere!
If ever ubiquity fell to the lot of mortal …
Dick! take Mr Jones some hot water
Mr Jones wants his coat brushed
bring a light in the cabin
go and swab the deck
peel then ’taturs for cook
you scoundrel, steward says
you've not cleaned his knives
Dick! go and water the sheep
help reef the topsails
feed the geese
take these bones to the dog
Smart active lad,
some ten or twelve years old?
seems to execute
your multifarious orders, sir,
with the most unflinching alacrity,
I take it an apprentice, sir?
No, he ain't a'prentice,
he's a nevy of mine as come aboard
for a holiday!
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- Cutting the Clouds Towards , pp. 8Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1999