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Updated: June 2, 2025

He was found dead under a burned-down tree in Dead Man's Gully 'dead past all recognition, they said and he was buried there, and by and by his ghost began to haunt the gully: at least, all the schoolkids seen it, and there was scarcely a grown-up person who didn't know another person who'd seen the ghost and the other person was always a sober chap that wouldn't bother about telling a lie.

Henry Lawson - While the Billy Boils