[Editor: This brief untitled anecdote was published in The Western Champion and Parkes & Forbes Representative (Parkes, NSW), 19 December 1912.]
[He was a very green emigrant]
He was a very green emigrant and had just arrived in Parkes. He watched the Council’s men hard at work, in the blazing sun tarring the street.
“My word,” he said, “the Government make them convicts work hard out here.”
Evidently all his knowledge of Australia had been gathered from reading “For the term of his Natural Life.”
Source:
The Western Champion and Parkes & Forbes Representative (Parkes, NSW), 19 December 1912, p. 19
Editor’s notes:
Council = a local government body (usually governed, led, or overseen by a committee, or council, of elected representatives); the government of a local area
emigrant = a migrant; someone who leaves one country so as to live in another country
For the term of his Natural Life = a novel by Marcus Clarke, set in the convict era in early Australia; it was first published as a serial (1870-1872), and then as a book (1874)
See: “For the Term of His Natural Life”, Wikipedia
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