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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408878" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Bark School</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was built of bark and poles, and the floor was full of holes <br>Where each leak in rainy weather made a pool; <br>And the walls were mostly cracks lined with calico and sacks – <br>There was little need for windows in the school. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then we rode to school and back by the rugged gully-track, <br>On the old grey horse that carried three or four; <br>And he looked so very wise that he lit the master's eyes <br>Every time he put his head in at the door. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He had run with Cobb and Co. – &quot;that grey leader, let him go!&quot; <br>There were men &quot;as knowed the brand upon his hide&quot;, <br>And &quot;as knowed it on the course&quot;. Funeral service: &quot;Good old horse!&quot; <br>When we burnt him in the gully where he died. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the master thought the same. 'Twas from Ireland that he came, <br>Where the tanks are full all summer, and the feed is simply grand; <br>And the joker then in vogue said his lessons wid a brogue – <br>'Twas unconscious imitation, let the reader understand. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we learnt the world in scraps from some ancient dingy maps <br>Long discarded by the public-schools in town; <br>And as nearly every book dated back to Captain Cook <br>Our geography was somewhat upside-down. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was &quot;in the book&quot; and so – well, at that we'd let it go, <br>For we never would believe that print could lie; <br>And we all learnt pretty soon that when we came out at noon <br>&quot;The sun is in the south part of the sky.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Ireland! that was known from the coast-line to Athlone: <br>We got little information re the land that gave us birth; <br>Save that Captain Cook was killed (and was very likely grilled) <br>And &quot;the natives of New Holland are the lowest race on earth&quot;. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And a woodcut, in its place, of the same degraded race <br>Seemed a lot more like a camel than the blackfellows that we knew; <br>Jimmy Bullock, with the rest, scratched his head and gave it best; <br>But his faith was sadly shaken by a bobtailed kangaroo. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the old bark school is gone, and the spot it stood upon <br>Is a cattle-camp in winter where the curlew's cry is heard; <br>There's a brick school on the flat, but a schoolmate teaches that, <br>For, about the time they built it, our old master was &quot;transferred&quot;. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the bark school comes again with exchanges 'cross the plain – <br>With the Out-Back Advertiser; and my fancy roams at large <br>When I read of passing stock, of a western mob or flock, <br>With &quot;James Bullock&quot;, &quot;Grey&quot;, or &quot;Henry Dale&quot; in charge. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I think how Jimmy went from the old bark school content, <br>With his &quot;eddication&quot; finished, with his pack-horse after him; <br>And perhaps if I were back I would take the self-same track, <br>For I wish my learning ended when the Master &quot;finished&quot; Jim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</a><div class=q>
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Where each leak in rainy weather made a pool; 
And the walls were mostly cracks lined with calico and sacks – 
There was little need for windows in the school. 

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