- Paperback: 64 pages
- Publisher: Unknown (7 Jan 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1150774207
- ISBN-13: 978-1150774201
- Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 2.3 x 0.1 cm
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... "HALF-CROWN BOB" A SKETCH, A STORY, AND A LETTER THE SKETCH Nobody knew who first gave him the sobriquet. He did not know himself, and, as he once said, "it fitted him, so he didn't care." Nor was anybody any better informed as to the exact time that Robert Strathing lost his identity in " Half-Crown Bob." Many were the discussions when more exciting topics were scarce, as to whether Bob's nickname arrived with him when he made his appearance on Pleasant Creek, or whether it was of purely local origin, and owed nothing of its appropriateness to Ararat or the other goldfields previously honoured by Bob's presence. Once indeed, when a tremendous fall of rain prevented work at the claims for some days, and every other controverted point in the camp politics, sociology and theology, had been thrashed out at Pat Davey's shanty, the bar of which served not only for spirituous refreshment for the inner man, but also as the arena for contests of all sorts--from the kind regulated by the code of the P.R. to that controlled by vague reminiscences of Parliamentary procedure--a row royal took place on this latter question. A new-comer from a Southern diggings, prompted by recklessness and the juice of the great Western grape, had asserted that the whole of the Pleasant Creek populace didn't contain enough mental capacity to devise so characteristic a name. Ararat, he thought, might be clever enough to do it, but he doubted even Ararat. Iu_his judgment, so happy an epithet could only be the offspring of Ballarat genius--Ballarat, the big and brilliant. Of course, this slur on the inventiveness of the Creek people could not be allowed to pass unresented. The new-comer was hotly supported by other late arrivals, from what was, even in these early months of the "sixties,...
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