Bush verse by Majella Stapleton, a bush poet from the south west outback region of Queensland, Australia. These stories in verse are snippets of life on a local level in Charleville - a typical small outback town, remote from the services and value systems of the bustling cities on the eastern seaboard.Majella's wry humour flavours her stories of "the country further out" (another term for the Australian Outback)as she tells of the local cricket team, the dentist,, friendship, landscape, dogs, droughts and flooding rains. For anyone who has any connection to life in the outback, the stories will rekindle memories and to others it is a glimpse of a lifestyle and community so different from the cities and "country further in".