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'Bluey' Gallagher gives a home and support to a poverty-stricken pair, a man wrongfully convicted of cattle-duffing and sentenced by his father, a judge, who resigns after the case; Gallagher was the original thief.
Aboriginal woman painted like skeleton for a corroboree seeks refuge with white family when her husband, intoxicated with opium, threatens to kill her, first knocking father over in kitchen, then hiding till daylight under a son's bed.