This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... THE HOMESTEAD MAN Jacob was an Englishman. He had left England so long ago that he had forgotten what the sea was like. But still he had kept the name of his birth-land. Also, in the eyes of the other hands on the station, he could not ride. I could not have told the difference--he could stick on any ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... THE HOMESTEAD MAN Jacob was an Englishman. He had left England so long ago that he had forgotten what the sea was like. But still he had kept the name of his birth-land. Also, in the eyes of the other hands on the station, he could not ride. I could not have told the difference--he could stick on any way. But he had not learned to ride as a baby, and they say you are never quite the same after that. Jacob was an Englishman. For some reason they seem just to tolerate Englishmen in the bush. They use the word almost as a mark for incapacity. "He can't ride. He can graft a bit; but he's not much intelligence, oh no. He's an Englishman," they tell you. Yet one noticed that if there were a particularly hard, thankless, not over-remunerative piece of work to be done, something that wanted sticking to honestly, through a long day, with a good solid shoulder behind it, it was somehow generally an Englishman that was set to it. This particular one, Jacob, was pure English, from Somerset. He was not clever. He could write his name if he were not interrupted. If he were disturbed he had to go back and begin again. But we watched him loading those "possts"; and I never saw anyone work like him. The "possts" were enormous twelve-inch baulks, stacked under a lot of loose timber, so that they needed to be pushed out clear before he could get at them to parbuckle them on to the wagon. Jacob burrowed into the pile flat on his chest, for all the world like a rabbit with a dog after it; got his shoulder up to the butt of the post he wanted; and then wriggled, wrenched, tore, shoved, as fiercely as a terrier in a dog-fight, until the post gradually emerged from its brothers, and after it--head to foot in dust, dripping with sweat, his huge brown muscles...
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Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Australia, sheep, wool industry) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
