Totty's Little Blue Stocking single work   short story   romance  
Issue Details: First known date: 1885... 1885 Totty's Little Blue Stocking
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In the American West on Christmas Eve a miner hears a poor widow try to prepare her children to receive no gifts. He steals her daughter's stocking from the line where it is drying and carries it around the mining camp until the widow has a rich Christmas indeed. Several months later they marry. Slight sentimental romance. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 21 no. 247 December 1885 Z1022410 1885 periodical issue 1885 pg. 214-215
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