Ned Kelly: A True Story - Bookworms 1 When he was a boy, he waspoor and hungry. When hewas a young man, he wasstill poor and still hungry.He learnt how to stealhorses, he learnt how tofight, he learnt how to live– outside the law. Australiain the 1870s was a hard,wild place. Rich people hadland, poor people didn’t. Sothe rich got richer, and thepoor stayed poor.Some say Ned Kelly wasa bad man. Some say hewas a good man but thelaw was bad. This is thetrue story of Australia’smost famous outlaw. When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and still hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live outside the law.
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