Ned's last words and how they went from "Ah, well, i suppose" to "such is life" in the telling.
by Dr Stuart E. Dawson https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/1669214/eras181_dawson.pdf
transcript of the Jerilderee letter which Ned dictated to Joe Byrne (not ones for punctuation)
https://www.murrumbidgee.nsw.gov.au/files/transcript_the_jerilderie_letter.pdf
"Approximately 8000 words long, this letter has been described as Ned Kelly’s ‘manifesto’. It passionately articulates his pleas of innocence and desire for justice for both his family and the poor Irish selectors of Victoria’s north-east." (Migration History NSW)
"It was natural to look for anarchistic individual solutions, to regard cattle theft as legitimate, and to protect bushrangers." One of my oldies ran a pub through which bushrangers passed, changing clothes on the way through and out the back door. Her husband wanted her to stop giving his clothes away so she suggested she give him away instead. The custom continued. i guess great-whatever grand papa bought his own clothes from there, or learned to love looking like a bushranger's discarded wardrobe.
On the other side of the fam, a forefather (a copper) was shot by a bushranger. His two sons soon caught the baddie and brought him back to hang.
i think i like the first story better.
#oz #history #Ned #poor-Ned
