A coach full of half-frozen shearers, bagmen and gamblers pulls up at a shanty, and the story of the shanty-keeper’s wife begins. Lawson’s sketches range over the bush and the back-country towns, with the confidence man Steelman, the Darling River, a hero of Redclay and a daughter of New Zealand among their people.
Spare, humane stories from Australia’s great writer of the bush. Download the free EPUB.