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haunted in While the Billy Boils

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1896
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haunted in While the Billy Boils

old and feeble, and men who had lost their faith in fortune. They had dropped unnoticed out of the ranks; and remained to scratch out a living among the abandoned claims. Golden Gully had its little community of fossickers who lived in a clearing called Spencer's Flat on one side and Pounding Flat…

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2,533
Year
1,896
Source
Project Gutenberg
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Record ID
2533
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
haunted
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
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old and feeble, and men who had lost their faith in fortune. They had dropped unnoticed out of the ranks; and remained to scratch out a living among the abandoned claims. Golden Gully had its little community of fossickers who lived in a clearing called Spencer's Flat on one side and Pounding Flat on the other, but they lent no life to the scene; they only haunted it. A stranger might have thought the field entirely deserted until he came on a coat and a billy at the foot of saplings amongst the holes, and heard, in the shallow ground underneath, the thud of a pick, which told of some fossicker below rooting out what little wash.

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