haunted in Over the Sliprails
s of the local loafers, who congregate and watch the proceedings with great interest and approval. The crew pitch tents, and set to work on the hull, which looks like a big, rough shallow box. . . . . . We once travelled on the Darling for a hundred miles or so on a boat called the 'Mud Turtle'--at…
- Record ID
- 2,504
- Year
- 1,900
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
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- Record ID
- 2504
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Publication
- Over the Sliprails; Henry Lawson
- Published
- 1900; Project Gutenberg public-domain transcription
- Narrative type
- Retellings and Adaptations
- Public-text label
- haunted
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
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s of the local loafers, who congregate and watch the proceedings with great interest and approval. The crew pitch tents, and set to work on the hull, which looks like a big, rough shallow box. . . . . . We once travelled on the Darling for a hundred miles or so on a boat called the 'Mud Turtle'--at least, that's what WE called her. She might reasonably have haunted the Mississippi fifty years ago. She didn't seem particular where she went, or whether she started again or stopped for good after getting stuck. Her machinery sounded like a chapter of accidents and was always out of order, but she got along all the same, provided the.
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