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I could not help comparing this night with the first Mary and I passed on our
landing here. I cared not for the cry of the wild dog which woke me this night,
except as being distressed to lose the poor goose which he carried off, a sense of
security ...
I could not help comparing this night with the first Mary and I passed on our
landing here. I cared not for the cry of the wild dog which woke me this night,
except as being distressed to lose the poor goose which he carried off, a sense of
security ...
Page 215
... load some wood for night got to the camp had tea fixed our tent Sam and Tom
took the Bullocks away to the river I made the bed and put Albert to bed he went
to bed early it is a miserable camp to night so windy and no grass much we let
the ...
... load some wood for night got to the camp had tea fixed our tent Sam and Tom
took the Bullocks away to the river I made the bed and put Albert to bed he went
to bed early it is a miserable camp to night so windy and no grass much we let
the ...
Page 250
dark when we camped as she knew the road thaii she cold come back if she
chose and if she had drowned her self her husband had the best right to see
about it she was sore pusled with my cooleness the next night we camped near a
...
dark when we camped as she knew the road thaii she cold come back if she
chose and if she had drowned her self her husband had the best right to see
about it she was sore pusled with my cooleness the next night we camped near a
...
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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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