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Henry Lawson. The Country I Come From
The Country I Come From
Table of Contents
An Old Mate Of Your Father’s
Settling On The Land
Stiffner And Jim (Thirdly, Bill)
The Man Who Forgot
His Country—After All
The Union Buries Its Dead
Mitchell Doesn’t Believe In The Sack
His Father’s Mate
The Drover’s Wife
The Bush Undertaker
Coming Across A Study in the Steerage
The Story Of Malachi
Steelman’s Pupil
Board And Residence
Two Dogs And A Fence
Macquarie’s Mate
The Shanty-Keeper’s Wife
The Hero of Redclay
The Darling River
A Daughter of Maoriland
The Story of the Oracle
The Mystery of Dave Regan
No Place for a Woman
Meeting Old Mates
I Tom Smith
II Jack Ellis
“A Rough Shed”
Payable Gold
An Oversight of Steelman’s
How Steelman told his Story
THE END
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Henry Lawson
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“Well, the sooner you begin the better,” I said; and I chucked the boot into a corner and bolted.
He jumped the bar counter, got his boot, and came after me. He paused to slip the boot on—but he only made one step, and then gave a howl and slung the boot off and rushed back. When I looked round again he’d got a slipper on, and was coming—and gaining on me, too. I shifted scenery pretty quick the next five minutes. But I was soon pumped. My heart began to beat against the ceiling of my head, and my lungs all choked up in my throat. When I guessed he was getting within kicking distance I glanced round so’s to dodge the kick. He let out; but I shied just in time. He missed fire, and the slipper went about twenty feet up in the air and fell in a waterhole.
