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Trotting Cob in The Moving Finger

YEAR
1895
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Trotting Cob in The Moving Finger

nt THE MOVING FINGER (1895) BY MARY GAUNT "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on; nor all your piety and wit Shall lore it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." CONTENTS A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesb…

Record ID
2,281
Year
1,895
Source
Project Gutenberg Australia
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Record ID
2281
Source
Project Gutenberg Australia
Publication
The Moving Finger; Mary Gaunt
Published
1895
Narrative type
Ghost and Apparition Accounts
Public-text label
Trotting Cob
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
Source voice
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nt THE MOVING FINGER (1895) BY MARY GAUNT "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on; nor all your piety and wit Shall lore it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." CONTENTS A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas TROTTING COB "Hi--hey--hold up there, mare, will you? What did you say, mister? A light? Yes. That 's Trotting Cob, that is. The missus 'll give us a cup of tea, but that's about all. Devil fly away with the mare. What is it? Something white in the road? Water by ----. Thank.

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