old arrangements

  Rancous       Heavily timbered. Ravage       Lightly timbered. Ravel       Timber all dead many years.

Razee       Black soil. Razor       Black and red soil. Razure       Red soil. Reacher       Chocolate soil. React       Red and chocolate soil. Reader       With clay subsoil.

Recapit       All ringbarked and dead, no undergrowth. Recaption       All ringbarked, timber well dead. Recede       Timber dead many years.

Rhapsode     Little less may buy. Rhetian       Think little less will buy. Rhetor       per acre asked, less will buy. Rhetoric       asked, less will buy.

Riotous       Grass seedy country. Riparian       Infested with burr. Riphean       Infested with thistle.

Rivet       Been in one family right through.

Roguy       Rain wanted badly. Roky       Will not allow inspection until we have rain.  

ex The Australian Stock & Property Code No. 2 Compiled and issued by W(illiam). G(eorge). Woodger (1887-1979 *) and A. E. Robinson. Price – twelve shillings & sixpence. Sydney. 1912.

copy bears signature of P. M. Bourke, 3. 9. ‘12  

These old arrangements of words caused Ellen to smile secretly and return to the trees… — Murray Bail. Eucalyptus (1998)