A Run of Luck single work   short story   romance  
Issue Details: First known date: 1897... 1897 A Run of Luck
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Station romance. An Englishman, a new chum down on his luck, trades his clothes with a swagman in an attempt to overcome suspicion and get a job. He is hired on a station where he falls in love with the owner's daughter but raises the ire of his rival, the manager, who procures his dismissal. The young woman refuses the manager who - along with the banks - secured her father's ruin and early death. The woman and her sister attempt to support their mother as seamstress and governess drudge but are near starvation when she busks as a last resort and her old suitor discovers and rescues her. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 32 no. 390 November 1897 Z1074141 1897 periodical issue 1897 pg. 760-763
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