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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 20, 1948
Page
12
In a tense riverfront scene, Smiley hesitates to shoot as bullets dwindle while Quirk urges firepower to ward off imagined snakes. The rising flood adds urgency, and the gun finally fires multiple times before going quiet as the water climbs.
Smiley Greevins seeks a gun but must prove responsibility over three months under Police Sgt Flerman. A townwide stake grows as writer Quirk and Mrs. Quirk scheme while Granny McKinley resists opening the bore. Flood threats and a river trap unfold as Smiley’s fate hangs on the promised firearm.
A man in a rural setting contemplates suicide as a boy overhears and urges against it. The speaker insists on a quick finish with a single shot and mentions not wanting to be drowned in Davy Jones' locker. Smiley, a man perched in leaves, clutches a gun and waits to see if any shots are heard in Murrumbilla.
In a flood beware river townsman Smiley battles a would be antagonist across drifting debris. A tense dawn scene unfolds as the man slips toward the boy while a snake looms on a branch and a gun is drawn. The accident escalates as current and fear drive a fatal outcome.
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