Entertaining an Angel Unawares single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1881... 1881 Entertaining an Angel Unawares
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Tale of Christmas past, when the narrator received an unexpected visitor into his solitary house. The visitor, helping himself to whisky, explains he is the Angel Gabriel on a mission of death. Only the narrator's quick thinking and some morphine - laced bourbon - saves him ... Light, entertaining. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 17 no. 199 December 1881 Z1041816 1881 periodical issue 1881 pg. 206-207
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