Treacle single work   short story   adventure  
Issue Details: First known date: 1930... 1930 Treacle
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Travelling milliner on Thursday Island receives opium passed on by a Chinese shop-keeper as tinned chocolate, then sews it into rejected hats, but is caught when a boy opens a chocolate tin en route and complains of the sticky treacle to his Customs Officer father.

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Illus., drawing
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