The Harlequin Stone by David Foard - eBook 968 Kbs 32 pages.
The earth did not defeat me yet. Tomorrow I shall go back and the day after if need be. Then you shall see what this old man can do, to the ground he walks upon, and who masters, who.
This classic short story is set in Cooper Pedy, not far from Diggers Gully and the Old Four Mile.
It tells a tale of the human spirit which is often found in miners, working against nature.
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The Harlequin Stone
by David Foard
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It had been sixty-three days now since the old man had found any opal. During the first forty days a young aboriginal boy had worked with him. But after forty days without opal, the elders of the tribe told him that the old man was most Ngarlputjarra, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone to another mine, which had two good finds the first week.
It made the boy sad to see the old man come home at the end of each day with his bag empty, and he went down to help him carry the pick and scoop, and move the mullock heap from the top of the shaft.
As the old man wound the bucket down into the deep hole, his back would curve and his bones would crack, and to the boy, it sounded like the snap of imminent disaster....
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