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My Last Lesson in Colonial Experience single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1870... 1870 My Last Lesson in Colonial Experience
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The narrator is assigned to look after the rations and seven flocks of sheep thirty miles from the station house, but is played tricks on by his aboriginal guide, chases an emu and gets lost before a shepherd sets him on the right path. Patchy but has a certain rough interest. (PB)

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  • 'Sequel to "My First Lesson in Colonial Experience"'.

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 6 no. 67 December 1870 Z1023851 1870 periodical issue 1870 pg. 226-227
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My First Lesson in Colonial Experience Wanora , 1870 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 6 no. 64 1870; (p. 14-15) A new chum makes his way to a station beyond Wilcannia in outback New South Wales where he is tried out with lambing sheep, a damper, Warrigal Billy and two shepherds. Patchy tale with a certain rough interest. (PB)
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