The Sausage Tree (2009)
“We had some hard work to do. One job that we had to do in the spring was to cut the grass in the front yard. This did not mean we had a lawn mower and a lawn, we just had grass that had to be, cut and we seemed to be always sat it. We had an old pair of sheep shears and an old pair of scissors. It was hard work and no sooner had we finished cutting than it was time to go back to the start and begin again. The handles of the shears caused us to suffer plenty of blisters but we’d tie a strip of r...ag around our hand and keep on snipping. We were determined to show that we weren’t to be beaten at anything.While the grass was short we looked for the corbie grubs that often infested the ground and fed on the roots of the grass. We made hooks on the end of long pieces of wire and carefully put it into the small telltale holes made by the grubs. When other kids asked us what we were doing, we told them we were fishing for corbies. They then wanted to know what for, so we told them Mum was going to make us a corbie pie for tea and showed them the old pie-dish we used to put them in.MoreLess
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