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Andy proposes to a selector's daughter, Lizzie Porter, while sitting on the wood-heap one evening. All is well until his mate, Dave Bentley, starts telling tales.
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Note: Has epigraph: 'Tall and freckled and sandy,/Face of a country lout;/That was the picture of Andy--/Middleton's rouseabout./On Middleton's wide dominions/Plied the stock-whip and shears;/Hadn't any opinions--------------'
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yProse Works of Henry LawsonCollected Short Stories of Henry LawsonHenry Lawson,
Sydney:Home Entertainment Library,1935Z3897781935selected work short story Sydney:Angus and Robertson,1982