Towball's Christmas Gifts single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1889... 1889 Towball's Christmas Gifts
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An old drunkard becomes the the means of some folk offloading worthless gold mining shares. However, when the mine again strikes gold, the old man is feted by those wishing to relieve him of the shares. Greed and manipulation do not always lead to success though.

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    y separately published work icon Christmas on Carringa J. C. F. Johnson , Adelaide : E. S. Wigg , 1873 Z1024724 1873 selected work short story poetry An Austral Christmas Adelaide : W. K. Thomas , 1889 pg. 7-27
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