ghost in A Colonial Reformer Volume 2
e land. ‘But a drought, the real thing I mean, a dry summer after a dry winter, is something awful. I can recollect one when I was a little chap at school, and that was something I never forgot.’ ‘What was it like, Charley? I’m never afraid of facts; half the evil of life arises from not looking _t…
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e land. ‘But a drought, the real thing I mean, a dry summer after a dry winter, is something awful. I can recollect one when I was a little chap at school, and that was something I never forgot.’ ‘What was it like, Charley? I’m never afraid of facts; half the evil of life arises from not looking _them_ in the face.’ ‘Well, but some facts frighten you like a ghost does, however straight you may look them in the face,’ said the lad. ‘In the year I remember, lots of squatters lost their stock to the last head, and were ruined out and out. There was no beef or mutton fit for a blackfellow to eat. Flour was a hundred pounds a ton, and.
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