devil in Tales of the Dandenongs Third Series
uaint; and witty too! Really, you cannot help laughing in spite of yourself. And she’s as quick as a flash of lightning. So fast, indeed, that you wonder how she gets her thoughts together in such a brief space of time. One very trying day—I remember—she sent the dinner-table people into a roar of…
- Record ID
- 2,341
- Year
- 1,925
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 2341
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
- Publication
- Tales of the Dandenongs; Hume Cook
- Published
- 1925
- Narrative type
- Spirit-Person Narratives
- Public-text label
- devil
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Dandenong Ranges, VIC (VIC): B
- State or territory
- VIC
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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uaint; and witty too! Really, you cannot help laughing in spite of yourself. And she’s as quick as a flash of lightning. So fast, indeed, that you wonder how she gets her thoughts together in such a brief space of time. One very trying day—I remember—she sent the dinner-table people into a roar of laughter by some remark she made about its being “so hot the Devil couldn’t sup his own soup.” Reproving her later I said: “Oh! Kate! Kate! However do you think of such things to say?” “Shure I dunno M’am!” she replied. “They jist pop inta me head, an befoore ye can say “knife,” they shlips outa me mouth like a lozenge ahead av a.
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