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Cross Roads single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1937... 1937 Cross Roads
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A young man has become a swaggie and goes from town to town looking for work, hitching rides on trains. He no longer feels embarrassed by his state, only angry and is ashamed when a woman gives him a cup of tea and a cake because she feels she despises him. Unable to find any work, he eventually resorts to stealing food.

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    y separately published work icon The Queenslander 17 November 1937 Z1741438 1937 newspaper issue 1937 pg. 17
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