| Biographical Poetry posted June 15, 2013 |
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Women drive coaches too!
Women Do It Better!
by Aussie
A farmer's wife led a great life
Spare time driving for pin money She ploughed the fields - devoted wife Raising children - bees for honey. Delivering mail she drove at speed Four in hand she spied a band Bushrangers ahead - quick thinking indeed She hid her children on timbered land. On she drove to face the felons Her tongue lashing sent them packing "You'll not take my mail; mutton heads and melons!" Formidable female - nothing lacking. Back she drove on rutted bush trail Found her children crying Homeward bound with Royal Mail Giant of a woman - men left sighing. Home in time to muster cattle Daisy Byrnes - driver and farmhand Never one for inane prattle Women on the land - merry band. |
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Australian regional dialect. "Mutton heads" relates to calling the bushrangers sheep without a brain. "Four in hand" relates to managing four horses that were pulling the coach. 1930: Outback Western New South Wales - a place called Orange. Daisy Byrnes worked beside her husband ploughing the land. In her spare time she drove the Cobb & Co. Mail Coach - afraid of no one - she was built like a brick outhouse (dunny) or toilet block. For many years she drove along the non-existing roads delivering mail to out - stations and shops. In 1930 times were tough and every shilling counted - bushrangers were a constant threat to the coaches. Daisy sent them packing. We always say that a big - boned person is built like a brick outhouse (dunny.) Enjoy!
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