The stories in this book are a collection of a lifetime of anecdotes relating to the old Forky Stick, by way of example and not intended as a complete dossier, for the uses go on forever.
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"I had not long been on the Wandovale Station, a vast 1400 sq miles of cattle country in far North Queensland. 'The wet', by all accounts, was not a long way off. It was too late in the season to bustle, and there was a feeling of content creeping in around the place. Just as the hens tend to do and ducks before they roost. Not having been out this far before, and having been relaxing, in the old forky stick bush chair on the verandah for some timeand pondering in my mind as I watched the sun going down, what did lie ahead. I turned and asked the bloke alongside - 'What are we going to do when she starts to rain?' There was a long pause, then his reply -- 'Swim'.
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