Buckolts' Gate by Henry Lawson — Read

PROLOGUE.

Old Abel Albury had a genius for getting the bull by the tail with a tight grip, and holding on with both hands and an obstinacy born of ignorance-and not necessarily for the sake of self-preservation or selfishness-while all the time the bull might be, so to speak, rooting up life-long friendships and neighbourly relations, and upsetting domestic customs and traditions with his horns.