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The True Story Of A Remarkable Young Girl Growing Up In The Bush During The Great Depression. Patricia Jean Smith And Her Sister, Miss Mickie, Grew Up As Railway Children, Their Parents A Station-mistress And A Fettler. The Catalogue Of Towns They Lived In Reverberates With The Once-familiar Clatter Of Metal And Steam, But It Was The Tiny One-pub Town Of Waaia, In The Centre Of Victoria's Wheat-rich Goulburn Valley, That Kept Drawing Them Back. These Were Days Of Yabbying And Rabbiting, Of Bush Girls Riding Bareback On Wilful Ponies, And Of The Tin-lizzies That Transformed The Mallee Forever. It Was A Time For Learning, For Devouring Books And For Satisfying A Powerful Thirst For Knowledge. And Then It Was A Time For War. Hear The Train Blow Tells Of Patsy Adam-smith's Classic Upbringing During The Great Depression. It Is A Celebration Of The Ordinary People Of Australia, And Of A Life That No Longer Exists. Patsy Adam-smith.