RECORD ID

2499

FIGURE

Ghost

NARRATIVE

Retellings and Adaptations

PRINTED LABEL

ghosts

PUBLICATION

Over the Sliprails; Henry Lawson

AUTHOR

Not specified

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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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