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Updated: May 6, 2025
There was the cluster of farms on the flat, and in the foot of the gully, owned by Australians of Irish or English descent, with the same number of stumps in the wheat-paddock, the same broken fences and tumble-down huts and yards, and the same weak, sleepy attempt made every season to scratch up the ground and raise a crop.
Sometimes it happened that he had to throw down the plough-reins for half-an-hour or so to run round the wheat-paddock after a horse or an old cow; then, if he found Dave, or Sal, or any of us, sitting inside playing the concertina when he came to get a drink, he would nearly go mad. "Can't y' find anything better t' do than everlastingly playing at that damn thing?" he would shout.
A large fire near the slip-rails, shining across the lane and lighting up a corner of the wheat-paddock, showed the way in. Dad stood at the door to take the money. The Andersons eleven of them arrived first. They did n't walk straight in. They hung about for a while. Then Anderson sidled up to Dad and talked into his ear.
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