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Christmas on the diggings and rivalry for a new barwoman at the diggings store results in the murder of cheerful, honest Charlie Hutton by dark Poker Jim. A curlew's call and Charlie's ghost reveal his body at the waterhole. Arkansas colonel Dan Dennifer nearly kills Poker Jim in vengeance but is persuaded by the narrator not to stain his hands with murder. (PB)
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- Long Gully, Bendigo, Bendigo area, Ballarat - Bendigo area, Victoria,
- 1866
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