Re: Pat Ritter. Books
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 12:39 am
'Click Go The Shears':
St Helena Island was cold, grey and miserable. Whilst the stockade housed cells, a high wall covered its perimeter. Enclosed within the walls, an exercise yard where prisoners walked and gathered, this opportunity gave these thirteen prisoners - leaders from ‘The Great Shearers Strike of 1891’ an opportunity to gather and discuss their future and plans for survival. Sunday morning being the right time to catch up with everyone.
Different prisoners went into ‘gangs’. Big Bill Hamilton, over six feet and weighed more than 15 stone went into the ‘housemaids’ gang. He needed to go down on his knees to pipeclay the steps and climb ladders to clean windows. He often complained about ‘housemaid knees’ which everyone ed at his comment.
Julian Stuart went to the pig pens to clean out the sties and make a granolithic floor for the high-class grunters. They were bred, feed and fattened there, but alas, the prisoners never tasted their hard work of caring for the pigs. Joe assigned to the vegetable gardens to tend the soil, sow the seeds to feed the prison. Initially he found the work different because he’d never grown anything in his life prior to being in prison. A prison guard carrying his rifle walked up and down the aisles to keep an eye on the work.
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St Helena Island was cold, grey and miserable. Whilst the stockade housed cells, a high wall covered its perimeter. Enclosed within the walls, an exercise yard where prisoners walked and gathered, this opportunity gave these thirteen prisoners - leaders from ‘The Great Shearers Strike of 1891’ an opportunity to gather and discuss their future and plans for survival. Sunday morning being the right time to catch up with everyone.
Different prisoners went into ‘gangs’. Big Bill Hamilton, over six feet and weighed more than 15 stone went into the ‘housemaids’ gang. He needed to go down on his knees to pipeclay the steps and climb ladders to clean windows. He often complained about ‘housemaid knees’ which everyone ed at his comment.
Julian Stuart went to the pig pens to clean out the sties and make a granolithic floor for the high-class grunters. They were bred, feed and fattened there, but alas, the prisoners never tasted their hard work of caring for the pigs. Joe assigned to the vegetable gardens to tend the soil, sow the seeds to feed the prison. Initially he found the work different because he’d never grown anything in his life prior to being in prison. A prison guard carrying his rifle walked up and down the aisles to keep an eye on the work.
TO PURCHASE THIS BOOK PLEASE CLICK ONTO THIS LINK: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/497192.