Lumpy

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This place is about 300 klm's north of Perth.</B></div> <div> <B>I spent many a time there, catching up with friends I had met on my trails. I also got to know the locals quite well, some were okay, others were just to weird, I guess they had been out in the sun for to long.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>There was a chap who lived in one of the houses, between the pub and the corner shop. He used to sit on his porch and when someone walked past him, he used to wave his walking stick around and talk to them, which was an interesting thing to do, considering he always left his teeth in a jar of water on the sill behind him.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Now not many tourists would actually stop in Wubin, but some did. They would stay at the hotel, that is one place that has a story all of its own. They did say this pub was haunted.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>At night, Lumpy. Would sit at his table in the pub.  Drinking pots of Fosters, one after the next, Lumpy loved his brew.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Now Lumpy had a knack, a way of doing things. If he got into conversation with someone about spiders, he would say he has seen the biggest and ugliest of them all, he always gave you the impression that he had seen it all. He was always very good at goading someone, pushing them into something.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>He used to say to new people that he held the record for piling up 100 x $1 coins on top of each other, and challenged anyone to beat his record. I didn't realise what he was up to till later, but I once took him on, only to have my pile of coins fall over after I only put 27 up.</B></div> <div> <B>At least every night, there was one willing character who took Lumpy on, only to lose when his pile of coins fell to the floor.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>One night I was invited to a party with some of the local lads, one of them was getting married, so we decided to go bush and give him a good send off. It was a great night and I stayed late. I think around 4am Joey and I left, we were walking down the main street of Wubin, Joey noticed it first, but there was a flash of light near the pub. We thought someone was breaking in, so we crept silently forward until we were real close.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The sight we saw, well I can tell you I shall never forget. There was Lumpy, under the pub between the floor boards and the ground with a torch. It seems that he had other reasons for challenging people to beat his coin record. Some of the coins that dropped on the floor fell between the floorboards, then Lumpy would come out at night and torch in hand, go look for them.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We left Lumpy in peace, not bothering to approach him, he was to busy to notice us.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I always wondered after this, if some poor sod late at night, that went for a drink of water, and hearing in the background, lumpy's voice under the floorboards, no wonder they thought the place was haunted.</B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>