The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
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.