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Issue Details: First known date: 1871... 1871 Playing with Fire
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Tale of Francis Linton, a young man of small fortune and middling wit who falls in love with an actress. He also falls into debt and after she marries a Lord and his mother rescues him from London he settles down to his father's pickle business. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 6 no. 69 February 1871 Z1024598 1871 periodical issue 1871 pg. 326-330
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