Yule Candle : A Tale of Van Diemen's Land single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1935... 1935 Yule Candle : A Tale of Van Diemen's Land
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Two escaped convicts hiding in the bush on Christmas Eve risk lighting a Yule candle -- and it draws a terrified and lost boy, the son of the solider's commandant, lost in the bush.

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    y separately published work icon The Australasian vol. 139 no. 4536 14 December 1935 7760397 1935 newspaper issue 1935 pg. 6165
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