ghost in Children of the Bush
stead of three months ago. “How are you getting on?” We walked together towards the Union Office, where I had a camp in the skillion-room at the back. Jack was silent. But there’s no place in the world where a man’s silence is respected so much (within reasonable bounds) as in the Australian bush,…
- Record ID
- 2,175
- Year
- 1,902
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 2175
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Publication
- Children of the Bush; Henry Lawson
- Published
- 1902
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- ghost
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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stead of three months ago. “How are you getting on?” We walked together towards the Union Office, where I had a camp in the skillion-room at the back. Jack was silent. But there’s no place in the world where a man’s silence is respected so much (within reasonable bounds) as in the Australian bush, where every man has a past more or less sad, and every man a ghost—perhaps from other lands that we know nothing of, and speaking in a foreign tongue. They say in the bush, “Oh, Jack’s only thinking!” And they let him think. Generally you want to think as much as your mate; and when you’ve been together some time it’s quite natural to.
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