Excerpt from Dead Timber: And Other Plays
The scene is outside a slab hut in the middle of a half cleared selection in the Gippsland bush.
A form outside hut, with pots, pans, etc. Against hut, a shed, with separator. A muddy track, leading to cow-yard. Logs, stumps, etc.
In distance a steep hillside, covered with dead trees. An early winter's morning.
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