G'day yet again,

Well, I did get the scan done, but the Mudcat stayed down on the Delta bottom! Anyway, here are the words to an Australian poem / song clearly using the form, style (and tune) of The Calico Printer's Clerk:

CARROTY KATE
Anon.

It was at a back-track shanty where I was on the spree,
The ladies they were scanty, but the barmaid did for me.
Her hair was the colour of ginger, she could reckon you up on a slate,
My colonial, she was a swinger, and they called her Carroty Kate.
Chorus:
        She was very fond of riding, as you can plainly see
        For one fine day she rode away, with a chap from the Native Bee.

Now the shearing it was finished, and the rowdies rolling in,
My cheque had much diminished for Kate had got my tin.
I told her I'd burst like a bubble, if I didn't get her for a mate,
But, oh she saved me the trouble, did deceitful Carroty Kate.

I had bought her a pigskin saddle, a pretty piebald hack,
I "pitched" my sheep and cattle, for the station was just Outback:
When I asked her for to marry, I saw her hesitate,
For a fellow they call Flash Harry had been spooning with Carroty Kate.

Now he kept pitching nuggets and I kept pitching stock,
He pitched the biggest druggets and to my pitching he put a stop:
Now whether 'twas the gold or the riches that down the gully he'd rake
Or whether it was his boots or breeches-but he'd "pinched" my Carroty Kate.

From "Bill Bowyang's" Australian Bush Recitations

I reckon we might need a bit of "Glossary" of the 'Australianisms':

Shanty: A knockabout, usually unlicensed, grogshop in the outback regions ... usually dedicated to depriving seasonal workers of the whole season's pay cheque - and often using drugged grog to make the process faster, surer ... and cheaper.

My Colonial: Short for "My Colonial Oath" ... and generally a euphemism for some stronger 'Colonial' (native-born Australian) oath!

Native Bee: Presumably the name of the Station (rural property - farm / ranch) owned by 'Flash Harry'.

Tin: Money, cash.

"Pitched": Offered as an inducement (in this case, to marriage ... or something like that).

Nuggets ... stock: Presumably 'Flash Harry' was offering more in the way of riches ... and our hero was putting up his station and livestock.

Druggets: "Drugget" is a coarse cloth used in those days for rough floor and table coverings. Presumably it's used here to suggest 'Flash Harry' laying out his wealth for 'Carroty Kate'.

"Bill Bowyang" was a pen-name of journalist Alexander Vindex Vennard (1884 - 1947) whose column On the Track in the North Queensland Register published poems / songs sent in by readers between 1922 and 1947. Many of these were published in a series of nine books known as the Bill Bowyang Reciters. Together, these books constitute one of the best resources for 'folk songs' from the period before modern collectors, armed with tape-recorders, began to seek out old performers.

(A "Bowyang" is one of a pair of straps / bands / strings tied around trouser legs, below the knee to either hitch them up in rough ground ... or to limit how far small wildlife can climb!)