Fishing in the Styx by Ruth Park

Author:Ruth Park [Park, Ruth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781742533803
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2011-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

Four hours after he left, I had a wire from a railway station Missing you like BillyO already. The next morning there was another: Don’t be crook on me, I’m not such a bad bloke. In a week yet another arrived: Ag Pigen. After a while I worked out that this translated At Pigen and meant I could write to the post office there. I looked up Pigen on the map and in the gazetteer; I searched over the border in South Australia and the Northern Territory. Certainly, it was an extraordinary name, but a country that can produce place names like Pantapin, Galiwinku, Gnarpurt and Liapootah can come up with anything.

In fact, the message that D’Arcy had entrusted to the untender keeping of the telegraph service was Aw, Tiger.

‘I thought it simple and moving,’ he explained.

But soon he wrote from Port Augusta and I was so pleased to hear from him that thereafter we fired back and forth our usual fusillade of letters.

‘I’ve a new assignment from the ABC,’ I wrote. ‘An adult radio serial. Half an hour. It’s called Stumpy, and the ABC is paying £4 an episode!’

This serial ran to 140 episodes, and provided the first starring role for the much-loved actor, John Meillon, who was eight or nine years old at the time. After I accidentally heard him auditioning at Station 2UE for a radio version of Tom and the Water Babies, I pressed the ABC to try him out. A consummate actor, John Meillon had a half wry, half sad personality. He was a witty man, with an expressive, crumpled face, and a beautiful comedic talent. His life however was somewhat unhappy and he died unexpectedly in middle age.

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