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giant in Shearing in the Riverina

YEAR
1872
PLACE
New South Wales
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giant in Shearing in the Riverina

iver, to visit the next township, from ten to thirty miles distant, as the case may be, every time the former wanted a pound of tobacco, or the latter a pair of boots. They might possibly obtain these necessary articles as good in quality, as cheap in price. But there are wolves in that wood, oh, m…

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2,586
Year
1,872
Source
Project Gutenberg
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Record ID
2586
Source
Project Gutenberg
Publication
Shearing in the Riverina, New South Wales; Rolf Boldrewood
Published
1872; Project Gutenberg public-domain transcription
Narrative type
Retellings and Adaptations
Public-text label
giant
Archive period
Gold Rush Colonial
Location
Riverina, NSW (NSW): B
State or territory
NSW
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iver, to visit the next township, from ten to thirty miles distant, as the case may be, every time the former wanted a pound of tobacco, or the latter a pair of boots. They might possibly obtain these necessary articles as good in quality, as cheap in price. But there are wolves in that wood, oh, my weak brothers! In all towns dwells one of the 'sons of the Giant'--the Giant Grog--red-eyed, with steel muscles and iron claws; once in these, which have held many and better men to the death, neither Barney nor Bill emerges, save pale, fevered, nerveless, and impecunious. So arose the station store. Barney befits himself with boots.

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