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It continued so long that we gave up all hopes of either getting down to the store
house or when there of having any dinner. A stove in the open air and no shelter
presented a formidable obstacle to the serving up of a handsome dinner for 38 ...
It continued so long that we gave up all hopes of either getting down to the store
house or when there of having any dinner. A stove in the open air and no shelter
presented a formidable obstacle to the serving up of a handsome dinner for 38 ...
Page 226
... got started at last and came on when we stopped for dinner and we had just
got out to have it when we saw a man coming to us and it proved to be Willie
Lynch he was out with his team for a log so he would not hear of us stopping for
dinner ...
... got started at last and came on when we stopped for dinner and we had just
got out to have it when we saw a man coming to us and it proved to be Willie
Lynch he was out with his team for a log so he would not hear of us stopping for
dinner ...
Page 259
... down and get some dinner' 'i told you i have not much money i must know what
i have to pay' 'nothing wile you are hear so com, my husband whants to see you
and have his dinner' this was one that we had befriended and well they treated ...
... down and get some dinner' 'i told you i have not much money i must know what
i have to pay' 'nothing wile you are hear so com, my husband whants to see you
and have his dinner' this was one that we had befriended and well they treated ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Anna Cook and Ellen Moger | 19 |
Louisa Clifton | 39 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | No place for a nervous lady: voices from the Australian bush |
| Author | Lucy Frost |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | McPhee Gribble, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 7 Apr 2009 |
| Length | 284 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / General History / Australia & New Zealand |
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