ghost in Robbery under Arms
t was like the side of a house, and that full of slate-bars all upon edge that you could smell the hoofs of the brumbies as the sharp stones rasped and tore and struck sparks out of them like you do the parings in a blacksmith's shop. Then, just as I thought daybreak was near, a great mopoke flits…
- Record ID
- 2,620
- Year
- 1,888
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
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Record context
- Record ID
- 2620
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Publication
- Robbery under Arms: A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Australian Goldfields; Rolf Boldrewood
- Published
- 1888; Project Gutenberg public-domain transcription
- Narrative type
- Retellings and Adaptations
- Public-text label
- ghost
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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t was like the side of a house, and that full of slate-bars all upon edge that you could smell the hoofs of the brumbies as the sharp stones rasped and tore and struck sparks out of them like you do the parings in a blacksmith's shop. Then, just as I thought daybreak was near, a great mopoke flits close over our heads without any rustling or noise, like the ghost of a bird, and begins to hoot in a big, bare, hollow tree just ahead of us. Hoo-hoo! hoo-hoo! The last time I heard it, it made me shiver a bit. Now I didn't care. I was a desperate man that had done bad things, and was likely to do worse. But I was free of the forest.
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