On Our Selection - Rudd, Steele
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The Arrival 'No mistake, it was a real wilderness - nothing but trees, "goannas", dead timber, and bears; and the nearest house - Dwyer's - was three miles away.' The Way it Was 'Dave's only pair of pants were pretty well worn off him; Joe hadn't a decent coat for Sunday; Dad himself wore a pair of boots with soles tied on with wire; and Mother fell sick.' The Folks Round Here 'The snake's head passed behind the looking-glass. Jack drew nearer, clenching his fists and gesticulating. As he did he came full before the looking-glass and saw, perhaps for the first time in his life, his own image.…mehr

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The Arrival 'No mistake, it was a real wilderness - nothing but trees, "goannas", dead timber, and bears; and the nearest house - Dwyer's - was three miles away.' The Way it Was 'Dave's only pair of pants were pretty well worn off him; Joe hadn't a decent coat for Sunday; Dad himself wore a pair of boots with soles tied on with wire; and Mother fell sick.' The Folks Round Here 'The snake's head passed behind the looking-glass. Jack drew nearer, clenching his fists and gesticulating. As he did he came full before the looking-glass and saw, perhaps for the first time in his life, his own image. An unearthly howl came from him. "Me father!" he shouted, and bolted form the house.' Stories that immortalised the Rudds and their efforts to farm their Queensland selection. Generous in laughs, full of the bathos and absurdity of life, this is the full restored edition of On Our Selection as it was written.
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Steele Rudd was the pen name of Australian writer Arthur Hoey Davis (14 November 1868 - 11 October 1935), most famous for his collection of short stories On Our Selection. As part of the Q150 festivities in 2009, Rudd was recognized one of the Q150 Icons for his contributions to Queensland literature. Davis was born in Drayton, nearby Toowoomba, Queensland, the son of Thomas Davis (1828-1904), a blacksmith from Abernant in south Wales who arrived in Australia in 1847 as the result of a five-year petty theft belief, as well as Mary, née Green (1835-1893), an Irishwoman from Galway who was forced to emigrate due to the Fantastic Famine. In a family of 13, the boy was the eighth child and fifth son. Davis was schooled at the local school after his father took up a selection at Emu Creek. He dropped out of school before the age of 12 and worked odd jobs on a station until becoming a junior stockrider on a Darling Downs station at the age of 15.