ghost in While the Billy Boils
ning in a chair, with all the girls boo-hoo-ing round her for company. The old man was sitting in the back kitchen crying to himself.” He put his hat down on the ground, dinted in the crown, and poured some water into the hollow for his cattle-pup. “The girls came rushing down. Mother was so pumped…
- Record ID
- 2,530
- Year
- 1,896
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 2530
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Publication
- While the Billy Boils; Henry Lawson
- Published
- 1896; Project Gutenberg public-domain transcription
- Narrative type
- Retellings and Adaptations
- Public-text label
- ghost
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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ning in a chair, with all the girls boo-hoo-ing round her for company. The old man was sitting in the back kitchen crying to himself.” He put his hat down on the ground, dinted in the crown, and poured some water into the hollow for his cattle-pup. “The girls came rushing down. Mother was so pumped out that she couldn't get up. They thought at first I was a ghost, and then they all tried to get holt of me at once--nearly smothered me. Look at that pup! You want to carry a tank of water on a dry stretch when you've got a pup that drinks as much as two men.” He poured a drop more water into the top of his hat. “Well, mother screamed.
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