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else joined in, though Miss Ribbone smiled a little. When Joe recovered he held out his plate. "More pumpkin, Dad." "If--what, sir?" Dad was prompting him in manners. "IF?" and Joe laughed again. "Who said 'if'?--I never." Just then Miss Ribbone sprang to her feet, knocking over the box she had bee…
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- 2,685
- Year
- 1,899
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- Project Gutenberg
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- Record ID
- 2685
- Source
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- Publication
- On Our Selection; Steele Rudd
- Published
- 1899; Project Gutenberg public-domain transcription
- Narrative type
- Retellings and Adaptations
- Public-text label
- ghost
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Queensland (QLD): B
- State or territory
- QLD
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else joined in, though Miss Ribbone smiled a little. When Joe recovered he held out his plate. "More pumpkin, Dad." "If--what, sir?" Dad was prompting him in manners. "IF?" and Joe laughed again. "Who said 'if'?--I never." Just then Miss Ribbone sprang to her feet, knocking over the box she had been sitting on, and stood for a time as though she had seen a ghost. We stared at her. "Oh," she murmured at last, "it was the dog! It gave me such a fright!" Mother sympathised with her and seated her again, and Dad fixed his eye on Joe. "Did n't I tell you," he said, "to keep that useless damned mongrel of a dog outside the house.
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