{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5d55","title":"The Travelling Post Office","publish_year":1894,"publish_source":"The Bulletin","publish_edition":"Vol. 14, No. 734","publish_scan":"https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-489066658/view?partId=nla.obj-489162277#page/n21/mode/1up/search/banjo","author":"Banjo Paterson","code":"the-travelling-post-office","words":365,"image":"kangaroo.jpg","image_alt":"A kangaroo on a plains. Graphite filter.","genres":["poetry"],"blurb":"The mailman, if he’s extra tired, would pass them in his sleep,\nIt’s safest to address the note to ‘Care of Conroy’s sheep’,\nFor five and twenty thousand head can scarcely go astray,\nYou write to ‘Care of Conroy’s sheep along the Castlereagh.","description":"A young man heads North-west to join the drovers, and one could only ever send him a letter by making it out to ‘Care of Conroy’s Sheep’, as the only chance of a postman ever finding the man is by spotting the travelling flock.","rating":3,"publish_year_exact":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}