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• In the meantime, I had been receiving worrying reports about Nancy by mulga wire but could not find out for sure what was wrong.
• That night, diggers from all over the field, having learnt by ‘mulga wire’ that one of their number had married Harry Albury′s girl, gathered round the hut making cacophonous celebration[...].
• ‘The mulga-wire′s not working too good,’ he said by way of greeting. ‘I had no idea. When did you get back?’
• There is a really good sketch of Micky, the lonely boundary rider, whose wonderful stock of news comes by “the mulga wires,” who is full of scandal about the squatter′s rams[...].
• Tom had been been out early, or had got what we call a bush telegraphy or mulga wire, for when they reached the Four Lanes he said —[...].
• “[...] Lumps of silver as big as you′re head they′re picking up. So the mulga wires say.”
• “How did he receive word about the sick lubra?”
• “I don′t know. Mulga wire, I suppose.”
• In this book Upfield utilizes the full panoply of aboriginal lore — myths, beliefs, superstitions of the blacks; their communication by “mulga wire” (telepathy); walkabouts, medicine men, invisible shadowing; and all the other elements of the “Book of the Bush.”