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The weeks and the months sped by and the drought lay like a curse on the land. The ninth year cycle had come round and a lean time followed a fat. So it has ever been in the meteorological history of Queensland.
The sheep and the cattle on the grassless runs began to die off, first in hundreds, then in thousands, then in tens of thousands, until the western downs were thick inlaid with patines of bleached-white bones.