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Issue Details: First known date: 1886... 1886 A Barrack Ghost Story
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A new recruit is severely punished by an army court for being asleep on duty when he declared that he has fallen unconscious from fright at a ghostlike figure. Similar experiences of other soldiers and the discovery of his colonel's sleepwalking habits exculpate him and he is released and promoted. Basic tale. (PB)

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  • From Chamber's Journal

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 22 no. 256 September 1886 Z1031348 1886 periodical issue 1886 pg. 29-31
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