BRIGHTEN'S SISTER-IN-LAW by HENRY LAWSON

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

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🗓️ 12 December 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Australian writer Henry Lawson's dramatic tale told by a young husband who recalls hard times when he and his wife were raising a three year old in the Australian bush in the days just after the gold rush. ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ== 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20heroes 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Tales from Arthur Conan Doyle) https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20sherlock%20holmes 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20ghost%20stories 1001 Stories for the Road on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20stories%20for%20the%20road Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20greatest%20love%20stories 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (author interviews) on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/1001-historys-best-storytellers APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Oh, Welcome back everyone to 1001 one classic short stories and tales.
0:34.2	This is your host John Hagdorn and you aussies are going to be glad to hear
0:38.0	it's time for another tale from Henry Lawson, one of Australia's storytelling legends, this one called Brighton's sister-in-law.
0:47.0	Jim was born on Gulgong, New South Wales.
0:50.0	We used to say on Gulgong, and old diggers still talked of being on the Goulgong
0:55.1	though the gold field there had been worked out for years and the place was only a dusty
0:59.5	little pastoral town in the scrubs. Goulgong was about the last of the great alluvial rushes of the roaring days and dreary and dismal enough it looked when I was there.
1:09.0	The expression on came from being on the diggings or goldfield. The workings or the gold field was all underneath of course, so we lived or starved on them. Not in nor Adam. Mary and I had been married about two years when Jim came. His name wasn't Jim, by the way, it was John Henry, after an uncle Godfather, but we called him Jim from the first and before it because Jim was a popular Bush name and most of my old mates were Jim's
1:39.0	The Bush is full of good-hearted scamps called Jim
1:45.4	We lived in an old weatherboard shanty that had been a sly grog shop and the Lord knows what else in the palmy days of Golgong and I did a
1:51.0	bit of digging, fosicking rather, a bit of shearing, a bit of fencing, a bit of
1:56.8	bush carpentering, tank sinking, anything just to keep the Billy boiling. We had a lot of trouble with Jim with his teeth.
2:05.0	He was bad with every one of them,
2:07.0	and we had most of them lanced.
2:09.0	Couldn't pull him through without.
2:11.0	I remember we got one lanched and the gum healed over before the tooth came
2:14.8	through and we had to get it cut again. He was a plucky little chap and after the
2:20.0	first time he never whimpered when the doctor was Lansing his gum. He used to say
2:23.7	tar afterwards and want to bring the lance home with him. The first turn we got with Jim was the
2:29.6	worst. I had had the wife and Jim out camping with me in a tent at a dam I was making a cattle creek.
2:35.0	I had two men working for me and a boy to drive one of the tipped rays and I took Mary out to cook for us.
2:41.0	And it was lucky for us that the contract was finished and we got back to
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