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
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- Record ID
- 2586
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- Publication
- Shearing in the Riverina, New South Wales; Rolf Boldrewood
- Published
- 1872; Project Gutenberg public-domain transcription
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- 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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