The crooked stick
by Rolf Boldrewood
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Excerpt: "The scene, a limitless stretch of plain-its wearisome monotony feebly broken by belts of timber or an infrequent pine-ridge. The earth adust. A hopeless, steel-blue sky. The atmosphere stagnated, breezeless. The forest tribes all dumb. The Wannonbah mail-coach toiling over the furrows of a sandhill, walled in by a pine thicket."Tags
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- People/Characters
- Pollie Devereux; Betram Devereux; Harold Atherstone; Reverend Cyril Courtenay; Mr. Gateward (Overseer); Sybil De Wynton (show all 9); Mrs. Devereux; The Doctor (bushranger); Sergeant Herne
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- Corindah; Moorabil; Wannondah; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Rotomahana, New Zealand
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- The time, the close of a lurid sultry February day, towards the end of a long, dry summer succeeding a rainless winter, in the arid region of West Logan.
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