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'Why Don't You Speak to Him?' single work short story

Is part of Sketches from Real Life Old Boomerang , 1864 series - author short story

Author:agent Old Boomerang

Issue Details: First known date: 1868... 1868 'Why Don't You Speak to Him?'

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Recounts the story of a sailor whom 'Old Boomerang' claims to have rescued from alcoholism and sin by speaking to him, and getting him to sign the Temperance pledge, successfully turning him into a gentleman.

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y Australian Tales and Sketches from Real Life Old Boomerang , London : Sampson Low, Son and Marston , 1868 Z1038767 1868 selected work short story novella London : Sampson Low, Son and Marston , 1868
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1868
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pg. 146-151
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y The Sydney Mail vol. 9 no. 419 11 July 1868 Z1251301 1868 newspaper issue 1868
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1868
)
pg. 3

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