Wally's Dream single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1897... 1897 Wally's Dream
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Father and son tale of the diggings. A motherless boy dreams of discovering a gold nugget to assist his luckless father - and sets off into the bush determined to locate the site of his dream and the gold. The heat, his thirst and weariness combine to kill him - but he finds the site at last and hears from two searchers that his father has struck gold before he dies. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 32 no. 388 September 1897 Z1073899 1897 periodical issue 1897 pg. 632-633
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