nailrod

Updated: May 31, 2025

Old Ben Hake?" "Yes. You knew him, then?" The stranger seemed to have lost a great deal of his assurance. He turned his side to the counter, hooked his elbow on it, and gazed out through the door along Sunset Track. "You can give me half a pound of nailrod," he said, in a quiet tone "I s'pose young Hake is in town?" "No; the whole family went away.

Henry Lawson - While the Billy Boils