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Living within the two-roomed home, there lived a broken family of 5. A mother, and her 4 children tommy and jackie and her 2 daughters. She lost a child to child birth, "she rode nineteen miles for assistance, carrying the dead child". The drover (husband), had to move away to support their family after they lost almost everything in the draught.
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The husband and father (drover) of the family had to continue to pick up and leave his family to find "support and stability" when it wasn't realistic for either the family or the husband to leave and go droving again. Instead it broke and continues to break the family. "The drought of 18- ruined him. He had to sacrifice the remnant of his flock and go droving again"
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Whilst she was sitting in fear waiting for the snake we experienced little glimces of her past, which gave us a better understanding of her character and the strength she has. "from time to time she glances round the floor and wall-plate, and whenever she hears a noise, she reaches for the stick" she was in fear of her children getting bitten by the snake because she had experienced something like this before. " a little son of her brother- in- law was lately bitten by a snake, and died."
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The Drovers Wife and Alligator get the snake out of the partition slabs large cracks, Alliagator attached to the snake by gripping his jaw around the snakes tail and then the Wife grabbed her stick and stabbed the snake. "He snaps again, as the tail comes round. He has the snake now, and tugs it out. eighteen inches".
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By the help of alligator The Drovers Wife catches the snake and throws it in the fire and sits there and watches it burn, "carries it to the fire, and throws it in, then piles on the wood, and watches the snake burn"
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The Drovers Wife doesn't have to worry about the snake anymore because she watched the reptile burn in the fire with alligator and her oldest son.
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The Drovers Wife, can now allow her children to go out and play without having another stress added to her, she is comforted by her oldest son when he reminded her that he wouldn't ever leave her to go droving. "Mother I won't never go drovin'; Blast me if I do!"