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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- Public search-ready
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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
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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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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