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Issue Details: First known date: 1851... vol. 2 1851 of Household Words est. 1850-1859 Household Words
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Christmas Day in the Bush, Samuel Sidney , single work short story
A burning Christmas Day outback in 1840 and two English stockmen, left without food, journey to their Devon neighbour's station and join his generous Christmas party. One of the pair enjoys not only the repast but the fair company - and later marries her. Slight, colourful, cheery, egalitarian yarn: well-connected Englishmen meet successful once-starving Devon family in the land of opportunity. The earlier version includes the reminiscence it stirs of an English Christmas in 1832 when poverty forced his family to emigrate ...(PB)
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