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That night Joe stared through the bars of a damp prison cell
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Joe coolly hid among bales of hay in the loft of the prison stables
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Joe made for a familiar bush inn at Mahogany Creek
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The bushranger dashed upstairs, wriggled through an attic window, slid down the roof onto a horse and galloped away
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Yet not long after his release Joe was in trouble again
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Joe was put to work on a chain gang but it wasn't long_before he slipped out of his iron shackles
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Eventually Joe became weary from days on the run
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Soon Joe was up to his old tricks
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Storm clouds gather as Joe struck off his chains at a blacksmiths forge and then scurried back to his hideout in the hills
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Back in the yard of Fremantle Prison Moondyne Joe was chained by the neck as an example to other prisoners of what to expect if they dared to escape
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The Governor was pleased
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Joe barely survived in the tortuous cell
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The Governor ordered rocks to be brought inside the prison and every day Joe was led from his cell and put to work splitting lumps of limestone
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The Governor nearly choked on his dinner when he received news of the escape
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Troopers searched far and wide but Joe had vanished into the wild country he knew so well
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One night some troopers stopped at a vineyard on their way back from investigating a crime
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Joe was escorted back to prison