A Strange Story : Mr Dawson's Umbrella single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1896... 1896 A Strange Story : Mr Dawson's Umbrella
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English society tale of disillusion. The narrator borrows an acquaintance's umbrella from a restaurant during a storm and shelters a young lady with it. She contrives to keep it but the true owner spies it in her hand and demands its return. When all is revealed the lady is a thief and the umbrella holds her gains - including the narrator's watch. Slight. (PB)

Notes

  • From St James' Budget.

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 31 no. 369 February 1896 Z1050125 1896 periodical issue 1896 pg. 271-272
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