AustLit

'When Mr. Graham took ill, his wife decided to move from their home in Singleton, N.S. W. to Newcastle, s that he could be nearer medical treatment, and the family, which consisted of Elsa, sixteen, John, twelve, and young Roslyn, could go to school there. The only place they could find to live was an uncomfortable flat in what had been an old delicenced hotel, the rest of which was occupied by the Poppy family.

Elsa, learning that a block of land which Mr. Graham had inherited from his grandfather many years before was about to be sold on account of unpaid rates, decided to locate it and see if anything could be done with it. She, and John and Roslyn set off into the country nearby, and eventually found the block, with the kindly assistance of old Grandfather O'Neill, who gave them a rabbit to take home...'(Abstract from The Australian Journal, November 1948 p. 780)