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  • Griggsby’s Station

    Pap’s got his patent right, and rich as all creation;
      But where ’s the peace and comfort that we all had before?
    Le’s go a-visitin’ back to Griggsby’s Station—
      Back where we ust to be so happy and so pore!

    The likes of us a-livin’ here! It ’s just a mortal pity
      To see us in this great big house, with cyarpets on the stairs,
    And the pump...

    James Whitcomb Riley

  • A Mountain Station

    I bought a run a while ago

    On country rough and ridgy,

    Where wallaroos and wombats grow --

    The Upper Murrumbidgee.

    The grass is rather scant, it's true,

    But this a fair exchange is,

    The sheep can see a lovely view

    By climbing up the ranges.


    And She-oak Flat's the station's...