Better Rub Than Rust single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1881... 1881 Better Rub Than Rust
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An honest youth resolves to take up manual labour rather than rust with his status-proud mother and sister in Melbourne after his father dies. He takes a job at a farm near Lilydale and quickly gains promotion and the love of his manager's daughter. She will not marry him until the mystery shrouding her father's name is cleared ... Subject and locale more interesting than style. Mystery is the usual false imputation of murder in Ireland in the manager's youth. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 16 no. 189 February 1881 Z1013090 1881 periodical issue 1881 pg. 313-317
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