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Denison Gets a Berth Ashore single work   short story   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 1898... 1898 Denison Gets a Berth Ashore
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A sailor is offered a job managing a run-down poultry farm, but discovers his dreams of an easy life are not well-founded.

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Town and Country Journal vol. 57 no. 1504 3 December 1898 Z606485 1898 newspaper issue 1898 pg. 33
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Ridan the Devil and Other Stories Louis Becke , London : T. Fisher Unwin , 1899 Z331996 1899 selected work short story London : T. Fisher Unwin , 1899 pg. 105 - 111
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon South Sea Supercargo Louis Becke , A. Grove Day (editor), Brisbane : Jacaranda Press , 1967 Z539022 1967 selected work short story A collection of stories, some of which feature Becke's alter ego, Tom Denison. Others are apparently based on his one-time employer in Apia, Mrs Mary Macfarlane, and the blackbirder 'Bully' Hayes, as well as other characters he encountered in his Pacific wanderings. The stories draw heavily on Becke's own experiences and certainly have autobiographical components but they are not, as Professor Day's introduction implies, autobiographical in the strictest sense of the word. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press , 1967 pg. 87 - 91
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Subjects:
  • Bush,
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  • Cooktown, Port Douglas - Cooktown area, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland,
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