bunyip in Below And On Top and Other Stories
Hill. Peter Shaw, variously known as "The Identity," "The Hermit," "Blue Peter," and "Old Shaw," was a veteran fossicker, a reticent, gruff man, whose almost complete isolation had recently been broken by the appearance in the locality of Brown's Patch of a few parties of sleeper-cutters and pile-g…
- Record ID
- 2,328
- Year
- 1,898
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
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- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 2328
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
- Publication
- Below And On Top and Other Stories; Edward Dyson
- Published
- 1898
- Narrative type
- Spirit-Person Narratives
- Public-text label
- bunyip
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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Hill. Peter Shaw, variously known as "The Identity," "The Hermit," "Blue Peter," and "Old Shaw," was a veteran fossicker, a reticent, gruff man, whose almost complete isolation had recently been broken by the appearance in the locality of Brown's Patch of a few parties of sleeper-cutters and pile-getters, driven thitherward by the approach of the railway to Bunyip. Peter was living in the same chock-and-log hut at the head of Grasshopper Gully when the first selector settled in the district, and when the reputation of Brown's Patch as an alluvial field had already faded and been forgotten, and when the fact that the creek, and the.
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