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Issue Details:
First known date:
1852...
vol.
5
no.
232
4 December
1852
of
The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser
est. 1848
The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser
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* Contents derived from the 1852 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Christmas Day in the Bush,
single work
short story
(p. 2)A burning Christmas Day outback in 1840 and two English stockmen, left without food, journey to their Devon neighbour's station and join his generous Christmas party. One of the pair enjoys not only the repast but the fair company - and later marries her. Slight, colourful, cheery, egalitarian yarn: well-connected Englishmen meet successful once-starving Devon family in the land of opportunity. The earlier version includes the reminiscence it stirs of an English Christmas in 1832 when poverty forced his family to emigrate ...(PB)
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