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The Crooked Tree single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1930... 1930 The Crooked Tree
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A girl's father believes he will die if the crooked tree whose branch once stunned him is destroyed, but she fires the tree as a lighthouse to save her lover from a reef; the burning saves him and her father and destroys the father's phobia.

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  • Illus., drawing

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Queenslander 4 December 1930 Z1622804 1930 newspaper issue 1930 pg. 6
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