GREAT AUSTRALIAN SHEARING STORIES in LOGANLEA, Queensland for sale

Marsh, Bill 'Swampy'.
GREAT AUSTRALIAN SHEARING STORIES
ABC Books Australia 2007. 236 pages softcover. Illustrated with black and white photographs
380 grams
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The boss comes in and he says to the learner, 'Hey, you should've cleaned those bloody sheep up better, they've still got a lotta wool on their legs.' 'But boss,' the learner replies, 'it's gonna be a bad year for snakes so if there's still wool on their legs they won't get bitten.' And the boss says to the learner, 'Well, if you took a bit of bloody wool off their eyes they'd be able to see the bloody snakes!'
The shearer, so much a part of the Australian economy when the country lived on the sheep's back, is now beginning to vanish into mythology. Bill 'Swampy' Marsh began collecting shearing stories several years ago, and when he was interviewed on the Sunday morning ABC radio program Summer All Over, he was inundated with callers from all over Australia, all keen to pass on their own. The result, a collection that brings to life a world of outback stations, larrikins, roustabouts, sagacions dogs and occasionally strange cooks, is a worthy addition not only to the bush yarn but to Australian social history
'Can yer shear a hundred in a day, sonny?' the contractor asked. 'Depends how many times you want' em done,' Albie said
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