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'mum Snake'
the children where playing around the house and spot a snake -
it falls midnight
the children fall asleep, the mother is on edge, she is coward a brother in laws was bitten and died. The thunderstorm is brewing -
Talks about husband
The women has been getting anxious. Her husband is a drover. She is use to being alone. The women had dreams and 'girlish hopes' -
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Children born in the bush
The last of her two children where born in the bush, one with a drunken doctor and another she was alone. And she also lost a child in the bush while she was alone. She rode 19 miles for assistance, carrying dead child.