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'The story is novel in conception. A young man, fresh from the university, and cast off by his ladylove in the hour of his misfortune, goes into the distant bush to search for remains of prehistoric man. He Is shown by Dad Hayseed a patch of rough cave country which the old settler believes will reward his labors. And it does, but not in the manner anticipated. A primitive tribe is discovered. Indeed, one of the searchers is of opinion that they have stumbled on the garden of Eden. Diamonds are plentiful amongst these cave dwellers, and a golden girl soon casts the spell of her charms over the town dweller. The wild scenes of the outlying scrub country air exchanged for life in Sydney, and the council of the prehistoric hayseeds at this centre of civilisation supplies a rapid succession of curious and comic incidents. Dad Hayseeds [sic] and the head of the Prehistoric Hayseeds drink "not wisely, but too well" in a Sydney bar-room, and this adds to the strangeness of their behaviour, glimpses of scenery in and round Sydney are graphically introduced, and there are a few views of the harbor. Primitive instincts in some of the men from the cave country supply the material for some humorous and dramatic situations. But the Golden Girl acquires the manners and deportment of the fashionable city dweller with astonishing rapidity. Love themes are interwoven into the story, which, although comedy pure and simple, partakes strongly of the character of a dream.'

Source:

'Prehistoric Hayseeds', The Advertiser, 24 December 1923, p.11.