chimney-stones

Updated: May 21, 2025

There was his eldest son going shearing or droving anything he could get to do a stoop-shouldered, young-old man of thirty. And behind them, in the end, would be a dusty patch in the scrub, a fencepost here and there, and a pile of chimney-stones and a hardwood slab or two where the but was for thirty hard years of the father's life and twenty of the son's.

Henry Lawson - Children of the Bush