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THE BOY FROM THE SIR WALTER SCOTT.(remembering Bill Davidson)

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From: Quadrant
Date: 20010601
Author:RYAN, PETER

FACED WITH the morning chore of making the bed, I often think of my father-in-law, Bill Davidson. It is many years since he died in his nineties. Why should his memory still spring so sharply and so frequently to mind at bed-making time in the mornings?

He was raised in the valley of East Gippsland's Tambo River, a sheep and cattle man on what one would call a modest-to-medium scale, and who also grew the odd crop of oats or other cereal from time to time. His place was called Tambo Crossing, from the stony, shallow spot where Mitchell's coach horses used to splash through the ...

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