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Contrasting Christmas experiences in the bush: a father and son lost on the overland journey to Adelaide are dying of hunger and thirst. A merry picnic party from Yaroopna Station - overseer, pretty girls, squatter and 'new chum' enjoying a ride, a magnificent lunch and a kangaroo hunt. As evening falls the overseer and one of the girls discover the still surviving boy beside his dead father's body. The child is subsequently adopted. A pleasant Australian tale that combines humour and tragedy. (PB)
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Author given as K. H. Believed to be by Katherine Hughes.
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