HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER by HENRY LAWSON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 17 January 2024
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A sheep man trying to stay off the bottle leaves for a ride through the outback to reach a station where he can make some money, and on the way back stops at a bar, His best friend, who had promised his mate's wife he would keep her husband from drinking, takes his eye off his mate and the bar owner gets him drunk. The problems escalate quickly until a friend is brought into the mix.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1,000 1,000, one classic short stories and tales. |
| 0:34.0 | Today a story from one of my favorite authors Australian writer Henry Lawson. |
| 0:39.2 | This one's called His Brothers Keeper. |
| 0:41.8 | Hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:44.0 | By his pads to the parched desolation, |
| 0:47.0 | hot rides and the terrible tramps, |
| 0:50.0 | by the hunger, the thirst, the privation, of his work in the furthermost camps. |
| 0:57.0 | By his worth in the light that shall search men and prove, I, and just a viege. I place him in front of all churchmen who feel not who know not but preach |
| 1:10.4 | the Christ of Never. |
| 1:26.5 | I told you about Peter McLaughlin, the Bush missionary, and how he preached in the little slab and bark schoolhouse in the scrub on Ross's Creek that blazing hot Sunday afternoon long ago, when the drought was ruining the brave farmers all around there and breaking their hearts. |
| 1:32.3 | And how hard old Ross the selector broke down at the end of the |
| 1:35.9 | sermon and blubbered and had to be taken out of church. I left home and drifted to Sydney and back into the great northwest where all the |
| 1:46.3 | rovers go and knocked about the country for six or seven years before I met Peter |
| 1:51.0 | McLaughlin again. I was young yet but felt old at times and there were |
| 1:57.2 | times in the hot, rough greasy shearing shed on blazing days or in the bare men's hut by the flicker of the |
| 2:05.3 | stinking slush lamp at night or the wretched wayside shanty with its drink |
| 2:10.5 | madness and blasphemy or tramping along the dusty endless track. |
| 2:16.8 | There were times when I wished I could fall back with all the experience I'd got and |
| 2:21.3 | sit once more in the little slab and bark chapel on Ross's Creek and hear |
| 2:25.6 | Peter McLaughlin and the poor struggling selectors saying shall we gather at the river and then go out and start life of fresh? |
| 2:36.8 | My old schooled shellman Bushmate, Jack Barnes, |
| 2:39.8 | had married pretty little Clara Southwick, |
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