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Issue Details: First known date: 1905... 1905 A Gumsucker on the Tramp
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Notes:
'These letters were written for the Dimboola Banner and were favourably received. At the request of a number of readers, I am now seeking a larger audience. The letters come, not from a wealthy globetrotter, but from a backblock State School teacher, with an ambition to see the lands of the past... ' (The author, 'Preface to First Edition')
Notes:

Unsigned poem, 'The Wimmera', included at end of 2nd, 3rd and 4th editions:

Silent river 'mid the gum trees,/ Where I have my nest, / All the world I searched for pleasure,/ You I seek for rest./ Fertile Nilelands, beauteous Rhinelands,/ Torrents washing Gothard's crest,/ Silent river 'mid the gum trees,/ You I love the best.

The sixth line in the 4th edition reads: Torrents born on Gothard's crest.

Subjects:
  • Europe,
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