His Mother's Bible! And What It Did - A Life Sketch single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1880... 1880 His Mother's Bible! And What It Did - A Life Sketch
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Drink ruins Tom Byworth's life but his wife refuses to desert him. Attempting to sell his mother's bible for a drink to a friendly hotel-keeper results in a pact between them - Tom to stop drinking and the hotel-keeper to stop selling ... Prosaic, sentimental. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 15 no. 184 September 1880 Z1011509 1880 periodical issue 1880 pg. 40-42
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