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spirit in Below And On Top and Other Stories

loom, Kit, like a true child of the bush, reflected its spirit of light and joy, and darted hither and thither, with the mercurial gaiety of health and youth, mimicking the calls and tunes of the birds with marvellous fidelity, or singing till the gorges echoed back his song in a bewildering chorus…

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2,436
Year
1,898
Source
Project Gutenberg Australia
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Record ID
2436
Source
Project Gutenberg Australia
Publication
Below And On Top and Other Stories; Edward Dyson
Published
1898
Narrative type
Ghost and Apparition Accounts
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spirit
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
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loom, Kit, like a true child of the bush, reflected its spirit of light and joy, and darted hither and thither, with the mercurial gaiety of health and youth, mimicking the calls and tunes of the birds with marvellous fidelity, or singing till the gorges echoed back his song in a bewildering chorus, But there were times during the long night shifts when the ghostly moonlight flooded the gully, and the mountain lowered above them dark and forbidding, with the black pall of bush upon it; when only the faint rumble of the small battery up the creek, or the cry of a lone mopoke far up the range, broke the solemn stillness, and then.

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