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Includes the poems 'The Careful Mother' by Anna M. Pratt, 'The Plaint Of The Joey' from a humorous poem entitled "Marsupial Bill", by Brunton Stephens and 'Song Of The Hunted' by T.J. Gleeson, Livingstone River School.
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"It was the time when geese despond,",
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1879
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1878
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While illicitly smoking his father's meerschaum, Bill is grabbed by a kangaroo who takes him to court, where he is saved from execution through the intervention of the boss kangaroo's daughter and his own faithful dog. (Stella Lees and Pam Macintyre The Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature (1993): 401).
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