A Dangerous Mate single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1897... 1897 A Dangerous Mate
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A miner's mate on an old diggings nearly leaves him for dead after a horse accident. Only reading kind words in a letter from his mate's fiancee - the same woman he had hoped to marry himself - bring out his better nature. After rescuing his mate and sending the doctor he disappears - several months later after his friend is living happily married in Melbourne, he commits suicide during an alcoholic binge. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 32 no. 388 September 1897 Z1073899 1897 periodical issue 1897 pg. 641-642
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