Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Irish-Australian Paddy Carmody is sheep drover and shearer roving sparsely populated back country with wife and Sean, Fact2: family hire him to help drive large herd of sheep to town of Cawndilla, Fact3: Paddy like has no desire to be tied down Paddy, Fact4: Ida convinces Paddy to take job at station shearing sheep, Fact5: Brown sees young woman through first birth
Output (English): IrishAustralian Paddy Carmody Robert Mitchum is a sheep drover and shearer, roving the sparsely populated back country with his wife Ida Deborah Kerr and son Sean Michael Anderson Jr.. They are sundowners, constantly moving, pitching their tent whenever the sun goes down. Ida and Sean want to settle down, but Paddy has wanderlust and never wants to stay in one place for long. While passing through the bush, the family meet refined Englishman Rupert Venneker Peter Ustinov and hire him to help drive a large herd of sheep to the town of Cawndilla. Along the way, they survive a dangerous brush fire. Mrs. Firth Glynis Johns, who runs the pub in Cawndilla, takes a liking to Rupert. He takes to spending nights with her, but, like Paddy, he has no desire to be tied down. Ida convinces Paddy to take a job at a station shearing sheep; she serves as the cook, Rupert as a wool roller, and Sean as a tar boy. Ida enjoys the company of another woman, their employers lonely wife, Jean Halstead Dina Merrill. When fellow shearer Bluey Browns John Meillon pregnant wife Liz Lola Brooks shows up unannounced, she sees the young woman through her first birth. Ida is saving the money the family earns for a farm that they stayed at for a night on the sheep drive. Even though Paddy has agreed to participate in a shearing contest against someone from a rival group, he decides to leave six weeks into the shearing season. Ida persuades him to stay. He loses the contest to an old veteran. Paddy wins a lot of money and a race horse playing twoup. Owning such an animal has been his longstanding dream. They name him Sundowner and enter him, with Sean as his jockey, at local races on their travels after the shearing is done. Sean and Sundowner win their first race. Ida finally convinces a still reluctant Paddy to buy the farm she and Sean have their hearts set on. However, he loses everything Ida has saved for the down payment in a single night of playing twoup. By way of apology, he tells her that he has found a buyer for Sundowner if he wins the next race. The money would recoup their down payment. Though Sundowner does win, he is disqualified for interference and the deal falls through. Nevertheless, Paddys deep remorse heals the breach with Ida, and they resolve to save enough money to buy a farm one day.