Repertor's Repertory

[Primus pilus]

Well I have no idea of any of this at all and this is all rather frightening. If Pp has wanted to unsettle me he has been quite successful!!!!

Well then I can hopefully ignore that!

Can you Malin? Can you?

Pp is always so disappointed that the offerings of hardware and, even better, rural supplies stores are neglected as sources of high quality playthings. Improvisation!

Would Malin like to see the contents of the old cupboard downstairs? Or be taken to the shed at his mother's where his old Syd Hill-made Barcoo Poley saddle rests atop a very interesting frame?


Oh where have we taken Repertor's Repertory? A long way from his wonderful images but, then, perhaps we are sowing seeds in his mind.

 

[malins]

Can you Malin? Can you?

Am I to be left with no hope at all? I would not want to disappoint Him! I think the ... 'interesting frame' ... could perhaps be something ... but what would be left when 'high quality playthings' from cattle supply are used? Could even Repertor still conjure a 'wonderful image' from that? Oh! I fear I'm going hysteric!

 

[Primus pilus]

Am I to be left with no hope at all? I would not want to disappoint Him! I think the ... 'interesting frame' ... could perhaps be something ... but what would be left when 'high quality playthings' from cattle supply are used? Could even Repertor still conjure a 'wonderful image' from that? Oh! I fear I'm going hysteric!

Pp might avoid such devices as dehorners and ear marking pliers and ear tags and nose rings that disfigure permanently but, yes, the frame that holds the saddle is always worth exploring. Then, of course, there is the endless chain and all the rough old hemp rope slings.

As a working belt Pp wears what is known as a "Queensland strap" - though Wiki prefers it called a "Queensland Utility Strap" if you need to search - which can be used as a quick hobble strap for a woman as easily as for a horse (though Pp's version has a hand-stitched pouch added for his favourite stock knife).



The branding irons are there, still, though His alter ego, Pilus, has already applied His brand to Lin elsewhere .

But, alas, the crush and head bail and calf cradle are long gone as is the gallows frame where we hung the .......

We know from his illustrations elsewhere that Repertor has a fertile and, perhaps, febrile, mind. Who knows what he might make of all this .

 

[malins]

latex rings in just the right size might well be expanded and released around a woman's nipples though removal usually requires a razor-sharp blade and is quite dangerous

So that's what ring expander means. This all is just so far out of any territory of my experience. Pp does know about me and blades and how to do that but can we do without the latex rings...?

crush and head bail and calf cradle

My language fails me, what is all that? Are they really all gone so I don't need to know and worry?

Repertor has a fertile and, perhaps, febrile, mind. Who knows what he might make of all this

The good man Repertor has nothing to with this.

Not with his imagery and not with his wizardry.

I just shouldn't have said 'Oz'.

Now I'm definitely not anymore in any place I recognize...

 

[malins]

Pp might avoid such devices as dehorners

Well I'd hope so! I've been called a witch, but suggesting I might be a devil in need of dehorning is going all too far! Where do I get these reputations from? Someone must be spreading the most insidious rumors!

 

[phlebas]

Pp does have a calf-sized one in the cupboard somewhere along with all sorts of useful old stock handling equipment .

PP, I think your definition of "useful" is very different to mine!

 

[Repertor]

perhaps we are sowing seeds in his mind.

The good man Repertor has nothing to with this.

Repertor's knowledge of 'cattle' is limited to cats and dogs. But thanks to Pp and Madiosi he's quickly learning how to handle other species.
Credit: PrimeArt

 

[Primus pilus]

Repertor's knowledge of 'cattle' is limited to cats and dogs. But thanks to Pp and Madiosi he's quickly learning how to handle other species.
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Pp suspects that there might be something here for our Dorothy Brown but He is quite sure that Malin is not ready for THAT experience .

 

[malins]

He is quite sure that Malin is not ready for THAT experience

I'm not sure I like the sound of that way of saying 'not ready'. As if someone had some ... training ... in mind there to change that.

 

[Primus pilus]

I'm not sure I like the sound of that way of saying 'not ready'. As if someone had some ... training ... in mind there to change that.

Pp would not seek to train Malin as some mere domesticated hucow and will leave that fetish to others.

But Malin might present well as an elegant equine, trained for dressage, her poise and obedience on display beneath well-fitted harness.

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Perhaps friend Repertor might illustrate or find the work of others here.

 

[Repertor]

But Malin might present well as an elegant equine, trained for dressage, her poise and obedience on display beneath well-fitted harness.

Credit to artists

 

[Primus pilus]

Credit to artists

Some nicely trained and well turned out ponies there Repertor. But Pp doubts Malin would want her Master to take her in that direction.

Always seems ro be one though, like our resident recalcitrant, who takes so much more effort on the part of her Mistress. And she is missing one of the key components of an elegant equine's trappings . And, no, it isn't her bit though Pp would prefer that to a ring gag there.

 

[Jollyrei]

Not exactly how I remember "Ben Hur", but it's been a while.

If I recall, the girl on the inside is supposed to be the steadying influence for the team.

 

[Primus pilus]

Not exactly how I remember "Ben Hur", but it's been a while.

If I recall, the girl on the inside is supposed to be the steadying influence for the team.

Well Pp's grandfather was still using a team of four to pull ironbark logs cut for strainer posts out to where we could get a truck in the 1960's and it was clear that traditional four in hand (2 pairs, one in front of the other) was always a more effective team than four abreast that always seemed to pull somewhat sideways.
The rear pair (the wheelers) were older, steadier and, errr, heavier (demerits here Pp..be careful in your descriptions ). The leader was always harnessed on the near-side front.

But, yeah, in a team four abreast the near side girl (assuming an anti-clockwise course) should steady the team.

 

[Repertor]

Pp's grandfather was still using a team of four

Repertor's grandfather had a team of four too.

 

[Primus pilus]

Repertor's grandfather had a team of four too.

And he seems to have had a couple of good "wheelers" in that team too .

 

[Primus pilus]

Here Pp is reminded of a poem Henry Lawson wrote called "The Teams". So a couple of verses...with just a few words changed .....

With face half-hid 'neath a broad-brimmed hat
That shades from the heat's white waves,
And shouldered whip with its green-hide plait,
Pp he plods with a gait like that
Of his weary, patient slaves.

He wipes his brow, for the day is hot,
And spits to the left with spite;
He shouts at 'Malin', and flicks the Scot,
And raises dust from the back of 'Spot',
And spits to the dusty right.​

 

[malins]

weary, patient slaves....
He shouts at 'Malin', and flicks the Scot, And raises dust from the back of 'Spot',

Ahem.
Yes indeed I make a patient slave...
But ... who is 'Spot'?

 

[Primus pilus]

Yes indeed I make a patient slave...

To be otherwise would attract the "green-hide plait".

But ... who is 'Spot'?

Henry chose that name and, to maintain his rhyme with 'hot' and the 'Scot' Pp thought, like Henry, to leave that weary, patient slave unidentified.

 

[Eulalia]

I'll chip in here with my version of Gerard Manley Hopkins'
'Harry Ploughman', from the point of view of the draught-slavegirl:

Supple-as-sallow limbs, with their gloss of silvery sweat
Glistering down, skip of her hips, her hind’s sides, lithe,
Sinew-plait thighs, calf-cushions, shins scythe –
Stretch and swing, sickle and scythe –

In her dark eyes fear, well tears, slave-nymphet set
Stripped-stretched. Each ripple of pillowy pelt, her form
That hither is swelling, thither is swallowed or scrolled –
Surging or scrolled –

While, as a whipthong wick, each learns as in ballet her role,
And blazons through bare skin each what skill she must perform –
Her muscle-moves perform –

She leaps to it, girlshape strains, ah!
Spine, shoulders, manacled wrists,
Her joints all spring to the weltering o’the whip;

Round her face-flush curls
Toss and weave warpweft
By the whip upwhisked,
Whip-frisked,
Whip-coalycurls-frisked.

Breastbeauty too, buds of a girlsgrowth,
How she thrusts and hurls
Them!

Tense under tanskin her tender rump
Lashed twirls,
While adown her, bruised bone beneath,
Her thrashed flesh thirls,
With bloodburst scarletspurt thirls.

(thirls = 'splits open')
for the original, see http://www.bartleby.com/122/43.html