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ghost in Madame Midas

YEAR
1888
PLACE
Victoria
SOURCE
Project Gutenberg
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ghost in Madame Midas

r to its warm bosom. The country was of an undulating character, divided into fields by long rows of gorse hedges, all golden with blossoms, which gave out a faint, peach-like odour. Some of these meadows were yellow with corn--some a dull red with sorrel, others left in their natural condition of…

Record ID
2,956
Year
1,888
Source
Project Gutenberg
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Record ID
2956
Source
Project Gutenberg
Publication
Madame Midas; Fergus Hume
Published
1888 public-domain Australian fiction; Project Gutenberg transcription
Narrative type
Retellings and Adaptations
Public-text label
ghost
Archive period
Gold Rush Colonial
Location
Ballarat, VIC (VIC): B
State or territory
VIC
Source voice
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Publicness
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r to its warm bosom. The country was of an undulating character, divided into fields by long rows of gorse hedges, all golden with blossoms, which gave out a faint, peach-like odour. Some of these meadows were yellow with corn--some a dull red with sorrel, others left in their natural condition of bright green grass--while here and there stood up, white and ghost-like, the stumps of old trees, the last remnants of the forests, which were slowly retreating before the axe of the settler. These fields, which had rather a harlequin aspect with their varied colours, all melted together in the far distance into an indescribable neutral.

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