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Grimm Tale of Man IN<\/span>\u00a0Snowy River<\/strong><\/p>\n

By L. W. LOWER<\/p>\n

JINDABYNE, Monday.<\/p>\n

I, myself, personally, alone, and unaided, have crossed the Snowy River on foot in my downy underpants.<\/p>\n

This, so far as I know, has never been done before.<\/p>\n

As for me, it will not be done again within living memory.<\/p>\n

Asked by an interested bystander why I did this, I told him in my simple, forthright way that I wanted to see what was on the other side.<\/p>\n

This seemed pretty weird to him.<\/p>\n

Halfway across I became bunkered in the rapids, but the indomitable Lower spirit triumphed, and nature took a dirty slap to the face.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Innumerable turkeys roam around our caravan.<\/p>\n

I missed eight with various-sized rocks, and had just drawn a fine sight on the ninth, with every chance of bringing him down, when a man in dirty khaki trousers came and said: \u201cWaddger thinkyer trianterdo?\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems that they were his turkeys.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI was just teaching your turkeys how to duck,\u201d I replied.<\/p>\n

I thought that was rather bright, considering. He didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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Un-palette-able!<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

My artist companion, Wep, is becoming more tiring every hour.<\/p>\n

Today he was squinting at a little church built on the top of a bare rock-strewn hill.<\/p>\n

He walked me up and down for miles saying, \u201cIt looks better from here, don\u2019t you think. Do you think I\u2019d get the light better from over there?\u201d<\/p>\n

I said that it would probably look swell from the verandah of Straw Weston\u2019s pub.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He became temperamental about it, and said I had no eye for beauty, no sense of balance and proportion, and no soul.<\/p>\n

I got into my huff and walked off.<\/p>\n

I beat him to the hotel by only four minutes.<\/p>\n

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