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…
- Record ID
- 2,274
- Year
- 1,896
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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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
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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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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