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Where were they she thought, the voices, they were supposed to join me after breakfast. Something small flying about near the ceiling high above caught her eye, she’d not expected to see flies in a place like this. She fixed her gaze on it there was something strange about it, that shimmer... As it got bigger and came slowly closer Delia was horrified to see it was a frightened…

Fifth wasn’t aware she was drifting off to sleep but soon she was asleep and began to dream. She was a hawk, high in the air circling the village, lazy in its attempt to find prey. A rabbit ran across her path and she swooped down on it and just as she was about to grab it in her talons it turned to look up at her.

‘Oh Dee, Dee, I knew you’d come.’ And Fifth…

   TALES FROM THE SAND HILLS

A humorous collection of stories about life growing up in

the Australian outback as seen and lived by Mary Seaton

(Hoppo) of Tibooburra. With animals for playmates and

ww11 diggers for…

Tales From The Sand Hills an Australian Outback Adventure.

‘Tales from the Sand Hills’ is set in the Australian outback during the 50’s and 60’s. The times were pretty hard in post-war, post-depression Australia and to survive out there in the Australian outback you had to be a bit tough. And that country out there was particularly tough.

It was a…

   Around the campfire burning low, yet still gives off a warming       glow

 Down on the ever warming ground, the weary men sat all around             

 They passed some time at idle play, that holds the loneliness at bay          

 And they tell tales of days gone by, while stars looked on in blackened sky

 As Bushmen dream in swags remote, the dingoes howl their eerie note

 And God alone stands watch at night, beside that camp fire burning…