wool-ring

Updated: May 23, 2025

Tom was admitted to the lunatic asylum at Parramatta next year, and the squatter was sent there the following summer, having been ruined by the drought, the rabbits, the banks, and a wool-ring. The two became very friendly, and had many a sociable argument about the feasibility or otherwise of blowing open the flood-gates of Heaven in a dry season with dynamite.

Henry Lawson - While the Billy Boils