RECORD ID

2179

FIGURE

Ghost

NARRATIVE

Ghost and Apparition Accounts

PRINTED LABEL

ghosts

PUBLICATION

Children of the Bush; Henry Lawson

AUTHOR

Not specified

It was a rubble foundation: he was knocking off the thin end of a piece of stone to make it fit, and the clanging of the trowel prevented his hearing my footsteps. “Good day, mate,” I said, close beside him. I half expected he’d start when I spoke, but he didn’t: he looked round slowly, but with a haunted look in his eyes as if I might have been one of his ghosts. He was a tall man, gaunt and haggard-eyed, as many men are in the bush; he may have been but little past middle age, and grey before his time. “Good day,” he said, and he set the stone in its place, carefully flush with the outer edge of the wall, before he spoke again..

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1. 01ghosts in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive
2. 02ghosts in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive
3. 03ghosts in Queensland, Australia1861 · Internet Archive
4. 04ghosts in Queensland, Australia1861 · Internet Archive
5. 05ghosts in Old Tales of a Young Country1871 · Project Gutenberg Australia
6. 06ghosts in For the Term of His Natural Life1874 · Project Gutenberg