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A visit to a sheep property

Last holidays I visited a sheep property. I helped in the shearing sheds and in the yards.

On the first day the Merino withers were crutched. I helped by sweeping up after the rouseabout picked up the wool pieces. Shearers start early (at 7.30 am).

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Nick Carraway

            My name is Nick Carraway. I was born in a big city. My family has been well-known there for seventy years. My father’s university was Yale at New Haven, and I went there, too. I graduated in 1915 and then went to fight in the Great War.

          When I came back from the war, life in the middle city was dull. I could not settle down. I decided another place and learn the bond business. My father agreed to pay my expenses for the first year. So, in 1922, I went to New York.

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