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A Pious Fraud single work   short story   satire  
Issue Details: First known date: 1895... 1895 A Pious Fraud
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A doctor newly married and needing to build up a practice 'cures' a rich spinster's dog by replacing it with an identical dog from another suburb. He wins her thanks, her custom, and her high recommendation which soon builds him a lucrative practice. Light social satire. (PB)

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  • From St James' Budget

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 30 no. 356 January 1895 Z1077935 1895 periodical issue 1895 pg. 261-262
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