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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Over the Sliprails, by Henry Lawson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Over the Sliprails Author: Henry Lawson Posting Date: August 26, 2008 [EBook #1313] Release Date: May, 1998 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OVER THE SLIPRAILS *** Produced by Alan R. Light OVER THE SLIPRAILS By Henry Lawson Author of "While the Billy Boils", "When the World was Wide and Other Verses", "On the Track", "Verses: Popular and Humorous", &c. [Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are capitalised. Some obvious errors have been corrected.] Preface Of the stories in this volume many have already appeared in the columns of [various periodicals], while several now appear in print for the first time. H. L. Sydney, June 9th, 1900. Contents The Shanty-Keeper's Wife A Gentleman Sharper and Steelman Sharper An Incident at Stiffner's The Hero of Redclay The Darling River A Case for the Oracle A Daughter of Maoriland New Year's Night Black Joe They Wait on the Wharf in Black Seeing the Last of You Two Boys at Grinder Brothers' The Selector's Daughter Mitchell on the "Sex" and Other "Problems" The Master's Mistake The Story of the Oracle OVER THE SLIPRAILS The Shanty-Keeper's Wife There were about a dozen of us jammed into the coach, on the box seat and hanging on to the roof and tailboard as best we could. We were shearers, bagmen, agents, a squatter, a cockatoo, the usual joker--and one or two professional spielers, perhaps. We were tired and stiff and nearly frozen--too cold to talk and too irritable to risk the inevitable argument which an interchange of ideas would have led up to. We had been looking forward for hours, it seemed, to the pub where we were to change horses. For the last hour or two all that our united efforts had been able to get out of the driver was a grunt to the effect that it was "'bout a couple o' miles." Then he said, or grunted, "'Tain't fur now," a couple of times, and refused to commit himself
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