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Tells the story of the stockman, Two-Handed Dick, and how he defeats a rampaging bull and later a group Aboriginal Australians with a musket in one hand and an axe in the other, the latter incident giving rise to his nickname.
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This story was originally published in Household Words in 1850. Sidney subsequently revised it for inclusion in Gallops and Gossips in the Bush of Australia (1854), where it appears as Chapter V (pp. 71-85).
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