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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: was a broad-shouldered, muscular young fellow of twenty, who had always been a kind of humble friend and ally of mine. Passionately fond of shooting and fishing, I had taken pains to get him a day's rabbiting occasionally, and had let him carry my basket now and then when we had an afternoon's holiday and set off for the trout stream. 'Would ye look at this, Mr. Pole?' said he. 'I ha' gotten it from a brother of mine in Australia, who went there in a big ship called the Red Jacket last year. Quartermaster, Jack was; and seems loike he's runned away, and gotten hissen up the country to a place they call Ballyrat, where they're a rootin' out the gold like spuds.' 'That must be all nonsense, ' said I, unable to take in so much of the unusual at one gulp. ' Nay, but it is na, ' he replied. ' He sent me the letter and two newspapers as I've got at the kitchen as ye'd like to see 'em. Here's the letter. Happen ye'd like to read it. It's Jack's fist sure enough. He wants me to go to him, and I'd go fast enpu if I had any neighbour folk as 'ud go with me. But I can't think to face so far by mysen.' ' Ha Joe, ' said I, raising the heavy hammer and bringing down stroke after stroke with a strangely excited feeling, which made the heavy tool tremble in my grasp like a tack hammer. ' Wants you to go, does he ? Well, maybe you might have a mate after all. I finished my hour's striking, shod a horse, and pointed some farm tools, thinking the while that I might find such skill valuable in rude lands. My task done, I ventured to the Grange, and, locking myself in my bedroom, opened the epistle of Mr. Jack Bulder. Thus it ran: ? ' Ballarat, October 10, 1851. ' Dere Brother?This comes from the land, and not from the good ship Redjacket, as I expected to write home from wen I left t
| ISBN-13 | 9780217804110 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021780411X |
| Weight | 1.51 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.05 In |
| List Price | $25.60 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 470 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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