Brown's Baby single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1878... 1878 Brown's Baby
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Domestic tale in Melbourne: a commercial traveller finds himself in charge of an abandoned baby, having offered to look after it briefly on a Williamstown train. He resolves to adopt it but his wife refuses - until she discovers their own is missing ... weak humour of the incompetent male vs. baby variety. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 14 no. 160 September 1878 Z1024740 1878 periodical issue 1878 pg. 18-19
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