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From: "Daryl Crabtree" <>
Subject: [AUS-VIC-West] WEST WIMMERA MAIL
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 15:30:29 +1000


Sat. Feb. 26th 1887
Hynam
Mr. Adam Smith, of Hynam, deserves more than passing notice, for to weary
wanderers on the world's highway he remains the sole entertainer. When
the system of indiscriminate hospitality that formerly distinguished Australia
began to die out, or be supplanted by the meagre pannikin of flour. Mr. Smith
stood aloof and declared that while he had a sheep he would give the weary
wanderer a bite----- not a bite outside with his bull-dog as others do--- but a
substantial bite of beef and brose within, and it said that he yearly gives as
much in hospitality as would pay his rent and taxes---- forming a grand and
glorious contrast to the bennobodies around him.

Kind regards,
Daryl Crabtree
Gladstone
Central Qld

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