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fairies in Children of the Bush

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fairies in Children of the Bush

d Mitchell, “you ought to wear a three-bushel bag and ashes for three months, and drink water; but since the police would send you to an asylum if you did that, I think the best thing we can do is to go out and have a drink.” Lord Douglas married an Australian girl somewhere, somehow, and brought h…

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2,188
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1,902
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Record ID
2188
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Project Gutenberg
Publication
Children of the Bush; Henry Lawson
Published
1902
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Retellings and Adaptations
Public-text label
fairies
Archive period
Federation Era
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Australia (Australia): B
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d Mitchell, “you ought to wear a three-bushel bag and ashes for three months, and drink water; but since the police would send you to an asylum if you did that, I think the best thing we can do is to go out and have a drink.” Lord Douglas married an Australian girl somewhere, somehow, and brought her to Bourke, and there were two little girls—regular little fairies. She was a gentle, kind-hearted little woman, but she didn’t seem to improve him much, save that he was very good to her. “It’s mostly that way,” commented Mitchell. “When a boss gets married and has children he thinks he’s got a greater right to grind his fellowmen and.

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