A Christmas Present single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1893... 1893 A Christmas Present
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Tale of Paris during the siege. The humbug of a captain of franc-tireurs who woos the daughter of a cloth-merchant away from her father's head clerk is exposed by the narrator's Christmas present of a live bomb shell - of chocolate. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 28 no. 333 February 1893 Z1070730 1893 periodical issue 1893 pg. 333-334
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