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In the time before Queensland was a State, the narrator, a 'new chum', joins Steve the Poacher, a convict released to a sheep station, on a duck-hunting outing. This story about an encounter with an imaginary bunyip is a charming study of the colonial vernacular, for example: 'skeared' [scared], 'ketched' [caught], 'summut' [something], 'airthquake' [earthquake].
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Last amended 27 Jan 2009 11:58:36
Subjects:
- ca. 1850
Settings:
- Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales,
- Darling Downs, Queensland,
- Moreton Bay, Brisbane - South East, Brisbane, Queensland,
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