A Narrow Escape single work   short story   adventure  
Issue Details: First known date: 1885... 1885 A Narrow Escape
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Tale of the Snowy River and Gippsland area. Two cousins love the same woman, and a bushfire tempts one of them to leave his sleeping companion to his fate in their bush hut. Only the sight of the terrible flames nearing the hut awaken him to his crime, for he has been drinking, and he turns back ... Description of dry countryside etc are evocative, plot predictable. (PB)

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