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The wooing of the butcher Chimes, lawyer Tapement and doctor Pillbole of the wealthy Widow Moggs in the Australian township of Bogmeadows, is foiled by the lawyer's clerk, Peter Pouncit. (PB)
A motherless girl loses her father and brother in the Civil War, marries, and urges her husband to enlist. She eventually joins him on the battlefield and after his death nurses others until she too dies. (PB)