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January 31, 2007

Mulga Bill

Yesterday, thanks to friends I made in Adelaide, I became acquainted with a picture book I hadn't come across previously - illustrating A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson's poem Mulga Bill's Bicycle. The text of the poem is here:

"See here, young man," said Mulga Bill, "from Walgett to the sea,
From Conroy's Gap to Castlereagh, there's none can ride like me.
The book arrived in the post, and I'll be reading it to my grandchildren at the earliest opportunity.

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