Paraphrasing practice

                          

                


 happy traveller

The ballad of Waltzing Matilda tells the story of  ----------------------------------

                                                                             jolly swagman

who travels the country side.

The story explains that the ....................................camped by a

                                                   swagman

------------------------------ under the shade of a .......................................

billabong                                                            coolibah tree

As he watched and waited till his  --------------------------- boiled,

                                                         billy

he sang, 'You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me'.   As he sat by his campfire

,along came a  -------------------------   to drink  at the  -----------------------------  .

                                   jumbuck                                         billabong

He grabbed the ------------------------- and put in his -----------------------------

                            jumbuck                                          tuckerbag

for later.     Just then,  along came  the ------------------------  on his -----------------

                                                                squatter                        thoroughbred

and three --------------------------  on horses. They asked him,  'Whose that

                      troopers

------------------------------ you've got in the -----------------------

jumbuck                                                     tuckerbag

The swagman didn't want the ........................... to catch him so he jumped into

                                                troopers

...................... where he drowned.

billabong

The story tells that if you pass by that billabong now, the swagman's ghost can be heard singing.  ' You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me'