The Drover’s Wife

by

Henry Lawson

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Gin is Australian slang for an Aboriginal woman. When the bushwoman is sick and giving birth, an Aboriginal man, King Jimmy, goes to get his wife, Black Mary, who is called the “whitest gin in all the land.”
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