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The Boss of Taroomba
The Boss of Taroomba
The Boss of Taroomba
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'The Boss of Taroomba' by E.W. Hornung opens with a sensitive musician singing a sentimental song to an unsympathetic audience in a small room filled with young men in cord breeches and leather belts. They mock him behind his back, but the musician hears everything. When they ask him the price of the last song, the musician says it's half a crown, which the audience thinks is a stiff price. The musician can't afford to charge less because he gets his music from Melbourne. The audience asks the musician to sing another song, and he reluctantly agrees, hoping to show that there is no ill will.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherGood Press
Release dateDec 4, 2019
ISBN4057664561848
The Boss of Taroomba
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E. W. Hornung

Ernest William Hornung (1866 –1921) was a prolific English poet and novelist, famed for his A. J. Raffles series of novels about a gentleman thief in late 19th century London. Hornung spent most of his life in England and France, but in 1883 he traveled to Australia where he lived for three years, his experiences there shaping many of his novels and short stories. On returning to England he worked as a journalist, and also published many of his poems and short stories in newspapers and magazines. A few years after his return, he married Constance Aimée Doyle, sister of his friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with whom he had a son. During WWI he followed the troops in French trenches and later gave a detailed account of his encounters in Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front. Ernest Hornung died in 1921.

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