Dead Timber

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Excerpt from Dead Timber: And Other Plays The scene is outside a slab lint in the middle of a half-cleared selection in the Gippsland bush. A form outside hut, with pots, pans, etc. Against hut, a shed, with separator. A muddy track, leading to cow-yard. Logs, stumps, etc. In distance a steep hillside, covered with dead trees. An early winter's morning. (Enter Farmer, with lighted lantern. He moves round calling:) Farmer. Cow time! Cow time! Joe! Joe! Abe! stir your lazy bones there. Roll out, Joe, and get the cows in. Things are coming to a pretty pass when the old man has to be up first to call you. Cow time, do you hear? Cow time! Joe. (Within.) No hurry, dad. 'Tain't half-past five yet. Farmer. It'll be broad daylight soon. Joe. No, it ain't. Farmer. Get out o' that now, and none o' your back talk to me. Joe. Ain't I up? Farmer. I'll show you all who's boss on this 'ere selection. (Enter Joe, a red-headed boy of eleven.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.