weatherboard-and-shingle

Updated: May 5, 2025

We topped the gap and were going down into a gully they called Dead Man's Hollow, and there, at the back of a ghostly clearing that opened from the road where there were some black-soil springs, was a long, low, oblong weatherboard-and-shingle building, with blind, broken windows in the gable-ends, and a wide steep verandah roof slanting down almost to the level of the window-sills there was something sinister about it, I thought like the hat of a jail-bird slouched over his eyes.

Henry Lawson - Joe Wilson and His Mates