I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me.

@Bushranger thanks for that interpretation. Reading this kind of literature makes me feel so dumb but the stories are gold.

@DarkSideoftheMoon Interpretations are personal. What I get out of a story may not be the same as you. But you shouldn't feel dumb if you don't get the idea first up. There's a couple of his stories that I needed a lot of help understanding, "The Bush Undertaker" was one of them. There's quite a bit going on in that story, even though it is superficially very simple.

@DarkSideoftheMoon If you're game enough to try some real Australian early 20th century slang, try "The Songs Of A Sentimental Bloke", written late 18th to early 19th century: https://www.telelib.com/authors/D/DennisCJ/verse/sentimentalbloke/index.html

It's hard going, but worth it in the end. Took me at least half a dozen readings before I really got my head around it. It was also made into a couple of movies, the first one in 1919.