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giant in Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

YEAR
1909
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New South Wales
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giant in Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

past the placard advertising Mrs Clay's boats gleamed the highroad, and from where we walked could be seen a now unused old stone milepeg, carved in Roman lettering, its legend differing somewhat from that in modern figures painted on the miniature wooden post by which it had been deposed. It was o…

Record ID
3,025
Year
1,909
Source
Project Gutenberg
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Record ID
3025
Source
Project Gutenberg
Publication
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn; Miles Franklin
Published
1909 public-domain Australian fiction; Project Gutenberg transcription
Narrative type
Retellings and Adaptations
Public-text label
giant
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
New South Wales (NSW): B
State or territory
NSW
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past the placard advertising Mrs Clay's boats gleamed the highroad, and from where we walked could be seen a now unused old stone milepeg, carved in Roman lettering, its legend differing somewhat from that in modern figures painted on the miniature wooden post by which it had been deposed. It was one of many relics of the dead and gone convicts who had done giant pioneer labour in this broad bright land in the days when Grandma Clay's mother had been young. Fine old grandma, daughter of a fine old dad who had wept for the cruelty endured by the men who had worked in chain-gangs and were flogged under his superintendence, and.

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