kerosene-tins

Updated: August 3, 2026

This was some twenty paces across from the row of old kerosene-tins that constituted his flower-garden, past shed and woodstack to the post-and-rail fence. How often he walked it he did not know; but when he went indoors again, his boots were heavy with mud. For a brief summer storm had come up earlier in the evening.

Henry Handel Richardson - Australia Felix