RECORD ID

2536

FIGURE

Ghost

NARRATIVE

Retellings and Adaptations

PRINTED LABEL

apparition

PUBLICATION

While the Billy Boils; Henry Lawson

AUTHOR

Not specified

ketch The Bush Undertaker Our Pipes Coming Across The Story of Malachi Two Dogs and a Fence Jones's Alley Bogg of Geebung She Wouldn't Speak The Geological Spieler Macquarie's Mate Baldy Thompson For Auld Lang Syne FIRST SERIES AN OLD MATE OF YOUR FATHER'S You remember when we hurried home from the old bush school how we were sometimes startled by a bearded apparition, who smiled kindly down on us, and whom our mother introduced, as we raked off our hats, as “An old mate of your father's on the diggings, Johnny.” And he would pat our heads and say we were fine boys, or girls--as the case may have been--and that we had our father's.

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1. 01apparition in Queensland, Australia1861 · Internet Archive
2. 02apparition in For the Term of His Natural Life1874 · Project Gutenberg
3. 03apparition in The aborigines of Victoria, volume 21878 · Internet Archive
4. 04apparition in The aborigines of Victoria, volume 21878 · Internet Archive
5. 05apparition in The Australian Race, volume 31886 · Internet Archive
6. 06apparition in The Aborigines of Tasmania1890 · Internet Archive