ghosts in Over the Sliprails
eek, with his face like note-paper where the blood hadn't dried on it, and an old pistol in his hand--that he'd used, they said, to shoot Cossacks from horseback when he was a young dude fighting in the bush in Poland.” Mitchell lay silent a good while; then he yawned. “Ah, well! It's a lonely trac…
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- 2,499
- Year
- 1,900
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- Over the Sliprails; Henry Lawson
- Published
- 1900; Project Gutenberg public-domain transcription
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- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
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eek, with his face like note-paper where the blood hadn't dried on it, and an old pistol in his hand--that he'd used, they said, to shoot Cossacks from horseback when he was a young dude fighting in the bush in Poland.” Mitchell lay silent a good while; then he yawned. “Ah, well! It's a lonely track the Lachlan's tramping to-night; but I s'pose he's got his ghosts with him.” I'd been puzzling for the last half-hour to think where I'd met or heard of Jack Drew; now it flashed on me that I'd been told that Jack Drew was the Lachlan's real name. I lay awake thinking a long time, and wished Mitchell had kept his yarn for daytime. I.
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