Excerpt from Bushmen All: A Romance of the Never-NeverIt was a dark night in October. Now and then thick masses of cloud parted for an instant and revealed a moon nearly at the full. These momentary gleams of light did but intensify the gloom that followed. The place was the road from Ballarat to Bungaree. The year one of the early sixties.A solitary swagman trudged along the track. Ever and anon he stopped, and, turning round, listened. At last he came to where the road branched. To the left ran the way to J asper's Glen Avon Station. That to Bungaree bore to the right. Throwing down his swag, he sat on it, and peered anxiously into the darkness which blotted out the track on which he had come. He looked so long, and listened so intently that the. Beat ing of his heart disturbed him. He took out a flask and drank.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.