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Thread #64530 Message #1056625
Posted By: Bob Bolton
18-Nov-03 - 09:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: Not entirely from whole cloth
Subject: RE: BS: Not entirely from whole cloth
G'day Mickey,
There seems to have been a similar story in the Katoomba (Blue Mts, west of Sydney, Australia) about 6 months before Henry Lawson's The Loaded Dog appeared ... so it's likely Henry read the story ... and embellished it.
The original story, as well as Henry yarn, told of a couple of blokes who hadn't found any gold using their last blasting powder to make a charge to stun a few fish for dinner. The faithful hound retrieves the charge ... and they retreat.
In the Lawson story they reach the local pub, closely followed by the dog ... who gets mugged by the local pack of mongrels ... who inspect their loot under the pub ... BOOM! - several less local mongrels ... and the pub is looking somewhat askew!