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Live for Something : A Sketch for Youth single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1891... 1891 Live for Something : A Sketch for Youth
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US exemplary tale - espousing the work ethic. A young man is refused by his prospective father-in-law on the grounds that he has no direction and could not provide for a wife. He finally undertakes medicine and work prospers. After performing an amputation in his home town he is finally accepted by his sweetheart's father ... Predictable. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 26 no. 315 August 1891 Z1037014 1891 periodical issue 1891 pg. 659-661
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