haunted in On the Track
happened to be alive by accident. He was very restless in the house, and never took his hat off. There was a dress and a woman's old hat hanging on the wall near the door, but they looked as if they might have been hanging there for a lifetime. There seemed something queer about the whole place--so…
- Record ID
- 2,166
- Year
- 1,900
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 2166
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Publication
- On the Track; Henry Lawson
- Published
- 1900
- Narrative type
- Spirit-Person Narratives
- Public-text label
- haunted
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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happened to be alive by accident. He was very restless in the house, and never took his hat off. There was a dress and a woman's old hat hanging on the wall near the door, but they looked as if they might have been hanging there for a lifetime. There seemed something queer about the whole place--something wanting; but then all out-of-the-way bush homes are haunted by that something wanting, or, more likely, by the spirits of the things that should have been there, but never had been. As I rode down the track to the road I looked back and saw old Howlett hard at work in a hole round a big stump with his long-handled shovel. I'd.
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