- The Man from Ironbark
"The Man From Ironbark" is a famous
poem byAustralia nbush poet Banjo Paterson . It was first published in "The Bulletin " on1892-12-17 . The poem relates the experiences of a naïve bushman from theAustralian Outback , who reacts badly to apractical joke sprung on him by a mischievousbarber inSydney . While making his displeasure known,"A peeler man who heard the din came in to see the show; He tried to run the bushman in, but he refused to go."
The barber confessed that he was playing a joke, and the bushman, unconvinced, returned to Ironbark.Ironbark was the earlier name for Stuart Town, a town in the Central West region of
New South Wales . [cite web|url=http://www.walkabout.com.au/locations/NSWStuartTown.shtml|title=Stuart Town|work=Walkabout|publisher=Fairfax Digital|accessdate=2008-09-30]In
2004 , a representative of The Wilderness Society posed as "The Ghost of the Man from Ironbark", a reference to the poem, to campaign for the protection of the remainingIronbark woodlands inNew South Wales andQueensland [http://www.wilderness.org.au/articles/ironbark Ghost of Man from Ironbark] ] .External links
* [http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/patersonab/poetry/ironbark.html "The Man from Ironbark"] – full text of the poem
* [http://freeread.com.au/ebooks/e00073.txt "The Man from Ironbark" - full text on Freeread]References
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