Tom Flatt, or Scenes in the Bush single work   prose   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 1838... 1838 Tom Flatt, or Scenes in the Bush
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A humourous piece written in the form of an introduction to the probably fictional 'Tom Flatt' who wrote '... that immortal work "Tom Flatt, or Scenes in the Bush," from Australian letters still preserved by the family.'

Notes

  • Epigraph:

    Scene.–The worthy Second wiping his spectacles.

    Q. Why is a man who has been in Botany Bay like a puppy nine days old?

    A. Because his eyes are open'd. – The Colonel, p. m., 999th, 2nd series.

  • this work is unattributed in the Australian Magazine.

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