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devil in The Rising of the Court

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1910
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devil in The Rising of the Court

always by daylight, taking care to pick up a swagman or a tramp when he had no passenger; but his “conveections” had had too much of a shaking, so he sold his turnout (privately and at a distance, for it was beginning to be called “the haunted van”) and returned to his teams--always keeping one of…

Record ID
2,527
Year
1,910
Source
Project Gutenberg
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Record ID
2527
Source
Project Gutenberg
Publication
The Rising of the Court; Henry Lawson
Published
1910; 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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always by daylight, taking care to pick up a swagman or a tramp when he had no passenger; but his “conveections” had had too much of a shaking, so he sold his turnout (privately and at a distance, for it was beginning to be called “the haunted van”) and returned to his teams--always keeping one of the lads with him for company. He reckoned it would take the devil's own hypnotism to move a load of fencingwire, or pull a wool-team of bullocks out of a bog; and before he invoked the ungodly power, which he let them believe he could--he'd stick there and starve till he and his bullocks died a “natural” death. (He was a bit Irish--as.

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