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I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better / Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago, / He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him, / Just 'on spec', addressed as follows, 'Clancy, of The Overflow'.
And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected, / (And I think the same was written with a thumb-nail dipped in tar) / 'Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it: / 'Clancy's gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he are.'