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The ballad of Desmond Kale

In the early 1800s, out of the prison society of governors, redcoats, English gaolers, Irish convicts, and the few free settlers of Botany Bay, none had endured much farther inland than a few dozen miles from Sydney into the vast territory claimed, New South Wales. Or so it was believed until the escape of Desmond Kale and the vengeance of his rival, the wildly eccentric parson magistrate Matthew Stanton. From the back country comes a rumour in the form of a ballad, disturbing proof that somewhere beyond the colony line, Desmond Kale is thriving - 'a boast to the downhearted, a bother to the secure', and the finest wool in the colony along with him.

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