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devil in Over the Sliprails

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1900
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devil in Over the Sliprails

and goanna by preference--and died out, one by one, as blacks do when brought within the ever widening circle of civilisation. Jimmie moved promptly after each death, and left the evil one in possession, and built another mia-mia--each one being less pretentious than the last. Finally he was left,…

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2,510
Year
1,900
Source
Project Gutenberg
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Record ID
2510
Source
Project Gutenberg
Publication
Over the Sliprails; Henry Lawson
Published
1900; Project Gutenberg public-domain transcription
Narrative type
Retellings and Adaptations
Public-text label
devil
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
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and goanna by preference--and died out, one by one, as blacks do when brought within the ever widening circle of civilisation. Jimmie moved promptly after each death, and left the evil one in possession, and built another mia-mia--each one being less pretentious than the last. Finally he was left, the last of his tribe, to mourn his lot in solitude. But the devil-devil came and sat down by King Jimmie's side one night, so he, too, moved out across the Old Man border, and the mia-mia rotted into the ground and the grass grew there. . . . . . I admired Joe; I thought him wiser and cleverer than any white boy in the world. He could.

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