White-When-He's-Wanted
A humorous tale of a man who, despite his name and appearance, is not white when he's wanted. The story follows the adventures of this unlikely hero as he navigates various situations and encounters, always managing to find himself in unexpected and amusing predicaments.
By Andrew Barton Paterson · First published 1907 · Genre: Poetry, Western, Adventure · 3,564 words
First lines
Buckalong was a big freehold of some 80,000 acres, belonging to an absentee syndicate, and therefore run in most niggardly style. There was a manager on 200 pounds a year, Sandy M'Gregor to wit -- a hard-headed old Scotchman known as "four-eyed M'Gregor", because he wore spectacles. For assistants, he had half-a-dozen of us -- jackaroos and colonial-experiencers -- who got nothing a year, and earned it.
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White-When-He's-Wanted is listed on Textopian as a short story by Andrew Barton Paterson, dated 1907 CE.
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- Work type: Short story
- Author: Andrew Barton Paterson
- Date: 1907 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Poetry, Western, Adventure
- Length: 3,564 words
- Structure: 1 section, 51 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)
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Genres
- Poetry — Andrew Barton Paterson was a renowned Australian bush poet who primarily wrote ballads and poems about Australian life.
- Western — Paterson had a penchant for conveying rugged outback life, featuring bush landscapes and cowboy-like characters, aligning the poems with the Western genre.
- Adventure — His works often reflect physical hardships and the conquering of environmental challenges, signalling elements of adventure.
Tags
Australian literature · colonialism · frontier life · outback · adventure · exploration · nature · wildlife · environment · climate · weather · landscapes