The woman carried the bag with the axe and maul and wedges;\u00a0 the man had the billy and clean tucker-bags;\u00a0 the cross-cut saw linked them.<\/p>\n
Squeaker’s Mate<\/em>, Barbara Baynton<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n A late 19th-century Australian story about a tough pipe-smoking timber-getting woman whose back is broken when she is cutting down a tree.\u00a0 The man in her life, Squeaker, is good for nothing but she, his mate, has a dog who’s more useful…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The woman carried the bag with the axe and maul and wedges;\u00a0 the man had the billy and clean tucker-bags;\u00a0 the cross-cut saw linked them. Squeaker’s Mate, Barbara Baynton ***** A late 19th-century Australian story about a tough pipe-smoking timber-getting woman whose back is broken when she is cutting down a tree.\u00a0 The man in … <\/p>\n