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A Wimmera stockman narrates a tale set in NSW Richmond River district around 1870 - of a bushfire set by Aborigines which threatens the proceeds of several months timber-getting. One of the most disreputable cedar-cutters risks his life to save an Aboriginal woman who dies in the fire - and adopts the baby son she had saved by covering him with her own body. Includes passing comments on the maternal instincts of Aboriginal women. (PB)
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