By Jim Eames
With all of the attraction of James Herriot, Hamish Macbeth, Balllykissangel and Heartbeat, this can be a wonderful Australian bush yarn to make you snigger and to make you cry.
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Maybe it was while they were talking about the future of the coffins that the idea of Mick Eames, Undertaker, was raised. George Fynney had inherited an undertaking business from his father, but it was no secret around town that George would be happy to see the end of the death business. He’d been captured in Crete at the start of the war and likely he figured he had already seen enough of death and all that went with it. My father’s reasoning for buying the business was probably much simpler; given the sporadic nature of funerals he figured he could easily coordinate the carriage of dead people with the carriage of live ones in the A70.
They climbed back into the Vanguard, one in the driver’s seat and the other in the back, while the tall man, who appeared more friendly, came around to the back of the car. ’ he asked, which I thought was a fair question since we hadn’t seen Dad since he disappeared through the front door. ‘I don’t know. I suppose he’s gone out into the workshop for something,’ was all I could offer, and he walked off towards the door. A few minutes later he was back, to be followed shortly after by Dad who arrived just as I finished filling the tank.
Nah, what usually happens is one of the troupe’s own fighters, posing as a local, accepts the challenge. ’ 29 *Country Undertaker Pgs 27/5/05 12:31 PM Page 30 THE COUNTRY UNDERTAKER Dave had hardly finished explaining all this when there was a shout from the far side of the throng. The Eames boys snapped their heads in that direction as the crowd began to part, and the tall, slightly dishevelled figure of George Eames lurched towards the marquee. ’ Dave gasped as he watched his younger brother start to climb the steps at one end of the stage, almost tripping on the last one but recovering in time.