ben hall , crouching in the lantana , biting his horses ear to keep the animal quiet while pottinger and the black-trackers followed up his false trails ; ned kelly clanking out of the scrub behind the glenrowan hotel , seeing the coppers astonished eyes as their bullets punched harmlessly into his armour ; captain moonlight sending the coaches off with the ladies flushed and tittering , knowing their hearts would race in their fearful dreams of him ; even poor sam poo scrambling in his rage across the burning ridges of a foreign land !