Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Tale of a Trooper
A winter storm raged across the ridges and tore in Violent gusts down the gullies, carryirlg great squalls of ?eecy snow. The wind swept the ?akes horizontally through the gap where the station track ran an irregular course through the bush; and, though but a short hour had passed since the ominous mass of black cloud had swept over the early morning sky, the ground was already thickly powdered.
A ramshackle hut stood beside the track where it entered the bush, and in a rough leanz-to, where fire wood, tools and saddlery were piled more or less in discriminately, two unkempt station ponies, saddled and bridled, stood in somnolent attitudes. Huddled hens sheltered from the searching blasts, which swept in eddies of snow, rufiling the feathers of the hens and driving the tails of the horses between their legs.
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