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An Australian poet, journalist and writer Andrew Barton Banjo Patterson, 1864 to 1941, focused his work on the rural and outback areas around

New South Wales, Australia, capturing both the peculiarities and charms of people and places he wrote about.

He is famous for his folk song, Waltzing Matilda,

and his poems, The Man from Snowy River, and Clancy of the Overflow.

Unofficially considered Australia's official national song,

Waltzing Matilda, written in 1895,

is not about dancing with a pretty girl named Matilda.

Once the vernacular is stripped away and the words are understood, the song tells the tale of a migrant worker

making some tea at a bush camp.

When a sheep comes to drink from the billabong or watering hole,

he knabs the sheep to eat.

When owner of the sheep arrives with three policemen to arrest him, he drowns himself in the billabong, leaving his ghost to haunt the site.

We use Waltzing Matilda as the theme for this episode the cat and for past episode we did called

the Drover's wife which you can find in our archives at one thousand one classic

short stories and tales. As for cats, most people either love them or hate

them. If you've ever owned a cat or been owned by a cat as some would say, this story provides

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