- RECORD ID
- 2170
- FIGURE
- Dave
- NARRATIVE
- Spirit-Person Narratives
- PRINTED LABEL
- Dave
- PUBLICATION
- On the Track; Henry Lawson
- AUTHOR
- Not specified
Dave in On the Track — AusFigures public-text record
Dave in On the Track
- YEAR
- 1900
- PLACE
- Not mapped
- SOURCE
- Project Gutenberg
few shovelfuls below the surface, as some do. He was ramming the last layer of clay when a cloud of white dust came along the road, paused, and drifted or poured off into the scrub, leaving long Dave Bentley, the horse-breaker, on his last victim. “'Ello, Andy! Graftin'?” “I want to speak to you, Dave,” said Andy, in a strange voice. “All--all right!” said Dave, rather puzzled. He got down, wondering what was up, and hung his horse to the last post but one. Dave was Andy's opposite in one respect: he jumped to conclusions, as women do; but, unlike women, he was mostly wrong. He was an old chum and mate of Andy's who had always.
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