The most notorious of these characters was one Michael Howe, who became a bushranger in 1812.

(Air: “Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.”) John Gilbert was a bushranger of terrible renown, For sticking lots of people up and shooting others down.

And in the bush I lighted on A fierce bushranger with his gun, Who borrowed my garments, every one, For himself in the bush of Australia.