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fairy in Australian Tales

nsion to the rings on the "Royal Cobb" verandah-post. By-and-by the Boneless Brothers, attended by an admiring crowd of township children, marked out a sort of free selection on a piece of waste ground, between McTaggart the blacksmith's and the schoolhouse, and in the course of an hour or so a won…

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2,274
Year
1,896
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Project Gutenberg Australia
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Record ID
2274
Source
Project Gutenberg Australia
Publication
Australian Tales; Marcus Clarke
Published
1896
Narrative type
Retellings and Adaptations
Public-text label
fairy
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
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nsion to the rings on the "Royal Cobb" verandah-post. By-and-by the Boneless Brothers, attended by an admiring crowd of township children, marked out a sort of free selection on a piece of waste ground, between McTaggart the blacksmith's and the schoolhouse, and in the course of an hour or so a wondrous erection of poles and canvas, to which the tent of the Fairy Peri Barron (so celebrated in Eastern story) was but a shanty in comparison, rose into being. On the top of this canvas mushroom flew in the hot wind an enormous flag. The "Circus" had become a fact. During the afternoon the world and his wife trooped into Bullocktown..

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