Incidentally, he didn't actually cut the man's throat -- it was a city man playing a trick on a country yokel by "slashing" him across the throat with the back of a red-hot razor 
It's a comic poem which highlights the mistrust that country folk have of the city "sophisticates". Hardly a frontier town, by the way, it's set in Sydney!
I have added The Man From Ironbark to our reference section.
It's a comic poem which highlights the mistrust that country folk have of the city "sophisticates". Hardly a frontier town, by the way, it's set in Sydney!
I have added The Man From Ironbark to our reference section.
It could be worse