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1714839Robbery Under Armshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/robbery-under-arms-5/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1380268/ed928c63-5688-4959-bf71-24e80e31fe80.jpg?v=6383379942787300006161MXNWDS PublishingInStock/Ebooks/<p>My names Dick Marston, Sydney-side native. Im twenty-nine years old,<br />six feet in my stocking soles, and thirteen stone weight.<br />Pretty strong and active with it, so they say. I dont want to blow<br />-- not here, any road -- but it takes a good man to put me on my back,<br />or stand up to me with the gloves, or the naked mauleys.<br />I can ride anything -- anything that ever was lapped in horsehide --<br />swim like a musk-duck, and track like a Myall blackfellow.<br />Most things that a man can do Im up to, and thats all about it.<br />As I lift myself now I can feel the muscle swell on my arm<br />like a cricket ball, in spite of the -- well, in spite of everything.</p><p>The morning sun comes shining through the window bars;<br />and ever since he was up have I been cursing the daylight, cursing myself,<br />and them that brought me into the world. Did I curse mother,<br />and the hour I was born into this miserable life?</p><p>Why should I curse the day? Why do I lie here, groaning;<br />yes, crying like a child, and beating my head against the stone floor?<br />I am not mad, though I am shut up in a cell. No. Better for me if I was.<br />But its all up now; theres no get away this time; and I, Dick Marston,<br />as strong as a bullock, as active as a rock-wallaby,<br />chock-full of life and spirits and health, have been tried for bush-ranging<br />-- robbery under arms they call it -- and though the blood<br />runs through my veins like the water in the mountain creeks,<br />and every bit of bone and sinew is as sound as the day I was born,<br />I must die on the gallows this day month.</p><p>Die -- die -- yes, die; be strung up like a dog, as they say.<br />Im blessed if ever I did know of a dog being hanged, though,<br />if it comes to that, a shot or a bait generally makes an end of em<br />in this country. Ha, ha! Did I laugh? What a rum thing it is<br />that a man should have a laugh in him when hes only got<br />twenty-nine days more to live -- a day for every year of my life.<br />Well, laughing or crying, this is what it has come to at last.</p>...1687151Robbery Under Arms6161https://www.gandhi.com.mx/robbery-under-arms-5/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1380268/ed928c63-5688-4959-bf71-24e80e31fe80.jpg?v=638337994278730000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20131230000141978_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_<p> My names Dick Marston, Sydney-side native. Im twenty-nine years old,<br /> six feet in my stocking soles, and thirteen stone weight.<br /> Pretty strong and active with it, so they say. I dont want to blow<br /> -- not here, any road -- but it takes a good man to put me on my back,<br /> or stand up to me with the gloves, or the naked mauleys.<br /> I can ride anything -- anything that ever was lapped in horsehide --<br /> swim like a musk-duck, and track like a Myall blackfellow.<br /> Most things that a man can do Im up to, and thats all about it.<br /> As I lift myself now I can feel the muscle swell on my arm<br /> like a cricket ball, in spite of the -- well, in spite of everything.</p> <p> The morning sun comes shining through the window bars;<br /> and ever since he was up have I been cursing the daylight, cursing myself,<br /> and them that brought me into the world. Did I curse mother,<br /> and the hour I was born into this miserable life?</p> <p> Why should I curse the day? Why do I lie here, groaning;<br /> yes, crying like a child, and beating my head against the stone floor?<br /> I am not mad, though I am shut up in a cell. No. Better for me if I was.<br /> But its all up now; theres no get away this time; and I, Dick Marston,<br /> as strong as a bullock, as active as a rock-wallaby,<br /> chock-full of life and spirits and health, have been tried for bush-ranging<br /> -- robbery under arms they call it -- and though the blood<br /> runs through my veins like the water in the mountain creeks,<br /> and every bit of bone and sinew is as sound as the day I was born,<br /> I must die on the gallows this day month.</p> <p> Die -- die -- yes, die; be strung up like a dog, as they say.<br /> Im blessed if ever I did know of a dog being hanged, though,<br /> if it comes to that, a shot or a bait generally makes an end of em<br /> in this country. Ha, ha! Did I laugh? What a rum thing it is<br /> that a man should have a laugh in him when hes only got<br /> twenty-nine days more to live -- a day for every year of my life.<br /> Well, laughing or crying, this is what it has come to at last.<br /> </p>(*_*)1230000141978_<p>My names Dick Marston, Sydney-side native. Im twenty-nine years old,<br />six feet in my stocking soles, and thirteen stone weight.<br />Pretty strong and active with it, so they say. I dont want to blow<br />-- not here, any road -- but it takes a good man to put me on my back,<br />or stand up to me with the gloves, or the naked mauleys.<br />I can ride anything -- anything that ever was lapped in horsehide --<br />swim like a musk-duck, and track like a Myall blackfellow.<br />Most things that a man can do Im up to, and thats all about it.<br />As I lift myself now I can feel the muscle swell on my arm<br />like a cricket ball, in spite of the -- well, in spite of everything.</p><p>The morning sun comes shining through the window bars;<br />and ever since he was up have I been cursing the daylight, cursing myself,<br />and them that brought me into the world. Did I curse mother,<br />and the hour I was born into this miserable life?</p><p>Why should I curse the day? Why do I lie here, groaning;<br />yes, crying like a child, and beating my head against the stone floor?<br />I am not mad, though I am shut up in a cell. No. Better for me if I was.<br />But its all up now; theres no get away this time; and I, Dick Marston,<br />as strong as a bullock, as active as a rock-wallaby,<br />chock-full of life and spirits and health, have been tried for bush-ranging<br />-- robbery under arms they call it -- and though the blood<br />runs through my veins like the water in the mountain creeks,<br />and every bit of bone and sinew is as sound as the day I was born,<br />I must die on the gallows this day month.</p><p>Die -- die -- yes, die; be strung up like a dog, as they say.<br />Im blessed if ever I did know of a dog being hanged, though,<br />if it comes to that, a shot or a bait generally makes an end of em<br />in this country. Ha, ha! Did I laugh? What a rum thing it is<br />that a man should have a laugh in him when hes only got<br />twenty-nine days more to live -- a day for every year of my life.<br />Well, laughing or crying, this is what it has come to at last.</p>...1230000141978_WDS Publishinglibro_electonico_a7894201-29bf-3f8f-9feb-8e3b32fdd87e_1230000141978;1230000141978_1230000141978Rolf BoldrewoodInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/5da545ee-3339-47e6-97c4-a4393d41376e-epub-4cfa9dfe-fdbe-433b-8244-ca896cfcd8db.epub2013-06-15T00:00:00+00:00WDS Publishing