When Colts Ran (2011)
“Their acres were given over to fine-woolled sheep. The 1950s were good years and it seemed the new decade now upon them would match. The main men were Knoxes, and Randolph Knox the controlling influence over his elderly father and younger brother, Tim, who was the same age as Normie. In their long breaks back from uni, the two eighteen-year-olds showed up at rugby practice. The coach was Kingsley Colts, who said, when they stood and biffed each other, ‘Get down off your hind legs, you animals, this is a game.’ ‘The game played in heaven,’ was how Normie’s father, still turning out for the team at forty-one, described it. He would soon have reason to know.
In the previous century on the Upper Isabel, churches were built on steep clay ridges where preachers came on allotted Sundays. Nearby were graveyards arranged by denominations and separated by fences matted with windblown grass. Inside those weatherboard temples mud-nesting swallows and blowflies left traces requiring work with ...straw brooms and buckets of hot water and cakes of carbolic soap to clean out the gunk.MoreLess
In the previous century on the Upper Isabel, churches were built on steep clay ridges where preachers came on allotted Sundays. Nearby were graveyards arranged by denominations and separated by fences matted with windblown grass. Inside those weatherboard temples mud-nesting swallows and blowflies left traces requiring work with ...straw brooms and buckets of hot water and cakes of carbolic soap to clean out the gunk.MoreLess
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