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A Victorian gentleman-jackaroo falls in love with the station proprietor's daughter. When three years training are up he goes to North Queensland to manage a run of his own and dies of fever, leaving Jeannie to mourn his memory. Plain bush tale of romance and death. Brief. (Tone of reminiscence and colonial frontier becoming much rarer in 1880s; much more American, smooth.) (PB)
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