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Dramatic Reading #1: "That Pretty Girl in the Army"
[*]Where do I find the text? Source text ): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7065/7065-h/7065-h.htm#link2H_4_0002The Salvation Army is having a hard time of things in the rough Australian Outback town of Bourke. That is, until Sister Hannah arrives...
"Somewhere in the early eighties they had banged the drum to Bourke,
Where the job of fighting Satan was white-hot and dusty work.
Oh, the Local Lass was withered in the heat that bakes and glares,
And we sent her food and firewood but took small heed of her prayers.
We were blasphemous and beery, we were free from Creed or Care,
Till they sent their prettiest Lassies—and they broke our centre there.
So that, moderately sober, we could stand to hear them sing—
And we’d chaff their Testifiers, and throw quids into the ring.
(Never less than bobs or “dollars”—sometimes quids into the ring.)"
Henry Lawson, "Booth's Drum"
(Summary by Son of the Exiles)
Please read only from the colour-coded script below: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aF9ixOToDjbK7rf3jc1MYlJl6chp3JRk/view?usp=sharing
--> It may not be neccesary, but it can't hurt to mention, that the town's name "Bourke" is pronounced "Berk". <--
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Dramatic Reading #2: "The Hairy Man"
[*]Where do I find the text? Source text ): https://archive.org/details/trianglesoflifeo00lawsuoft/page/210/mode/2upIt was the day after Australia's Anniversary Day and all the patriots wanted to do was nurse their hangovers out in the scrub of the isolated western spur of the Blue Mountains. But following close on the heels of their hair-of-the-dog comes The Hairy Man, Australia's own version of Bigfoot.
(Summary by Son of the Exiles)
Please read only from the colour-coded script below: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12HTdukL-4gnrTO8ikGYVnPw-X7IwL5ko/view?usp=sharing
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Dramatic Reading #3: "Macquarie's Mate"
[*]Where do I find the text? Source text ): https://archive.org/details/whilebillyboils00lawsuoft/page/316/mode/2upEven "the veriest wreck in the drink-fiend's clutch" won't stand idly by and hear his mate slagged off.
(Summary by Son of the Exiles)
Please read only from the colour-coded script below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xv1DBG5SJthMILre57pwIqY6-emMfT-eazxMKd-PZ4A/edit?usp=sharing
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Dramatic Reading #4: "His Country -- After All"
[*]Where do I find the text? Source text ): https://archive.org/details/whilebillyboils00lawsuoft/page/50/mode/2up"Breathes there a man with soul so dead..."
Please read only from the colour-coded script below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B-b5FEBqLnm6Wdy4dsciCzsiXw7Nsym4e9qpMPZO8mU/edit?usp=sharing
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Keywords that describe the book: religion, romance, australia, salvation army, outback
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