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Bush Christmas

Tribune (Sydney) Tuesday 20 December 1955,



Stuffed with pudding to his gizzard

Uncle James let's out a snore,

Auntie Sue sprawls like a lizard

On the back verandah floor.



Grandpa Aub sits with a flagon

On the woodheap 'neath the gums,

'And he thinks he's seen a dragon –

Where the pigs are munching plums.



Cousin Val and Cousin Harry,

Cousin May and Cousin Fred,

Play the goat with Dulce and Larry

By the creek below the shed.



In the scrub the cows are drowsing,

Dogs are dreaming in the shade.

Fat and white, the mare is browsing

Cropping softly, blade by blade.



It is hot. The gnats are whirring.

Uncle Jamie rubs his knee

Sue," he whispers, "are you stirring?

It's near time to get the tea."



David Martin.
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