The Grand Hotel (2009)
“Within only a few seconds of our listening to Tom String and Joan Sweeney jigging along in the dray, they came to a resounding halt. Tom String started cursing. They were at the top of the Boatbuilder’s Track. To this day Boatbuilder’s Road, as we call it, remains dangerously steep, so much so that my sister-in-law recently used it as a training ground for her trekking holiday in Nepal. It seemed, however, that the palomino of history had other ideas. He was digging his feet in.
‘Oh blow yo...u, you two-faced mule,’ Tom String was calling. ‘You’ve done it before. What’s the rub?’ ‘It’s obviously the full dray behind him,’ said a reasoning Joan Sweeney. ‘He’s scared it’ll come down on top of him.’ ‘Pah. I’ve had him bring a load of ironbark down this hill. I tell you he’s got a bloody headache – from those dregs you let him in on.’ ‘Well, maybe you’re right,’ laughed Joan Sweeney. ‘What about we give him a hair of the dog?’ This time Tom String snorted like a horse.MoreLess
‘Oh blow yo...u, you two-faced mule,’ Tom String was calling. ‘You’ve done it before. What’s the rub?’ ‘It’s obviously the full dray behind him,’ said a reasoning Joan Sweeney. ‘He’s scared it’ll come down on top of him.’ ‘Pah. I’ve had him bring a load of ironbark down this hill. I tell you he’s got a bloody headache – from those dregs you let him in on.’ ‘Well, maybe you’re right,’ laughed Joan Sweeney. ‘What about we give him a hair of the dog?’ This time Tom String snorted like a horse.MoreLess
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