woman-and-girl

Updated: July 25, 2025

And, coming back into civilized life, these men, who had been well brought up, drop into their old manner and style of speaking as readily as the foulest-mouthed man in a shed or camp who, amongst his fellows, cannot say three words without an oath can, when he finds himself in a decent home in the woman-and-girl world, yarn by the hour without letting slip a solitary little damn.

Henry Lawson - Children of the Bush

The horse belonged to an English University man. I went in to see how Jack was. He was lying in the parlour on a little, worn-out, horse-hair sofa, that might have seen better days in some clean home in the woman-and-girl world. He had been drinking and playing cards till early that morning, and he looked awful he looked as if he'd been boozing for a month.

Henry Lawson - Children of the Bush