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How Baby Earned the Christmas Dinner single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1889... 1889 How Baby Earned the Christmas Dinner
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Their first Christmas in Dunedin, New Zealand looks very unhappy for a couple and their baby, born after arriving from England. Unemployment and injury have reduced them to penury when baby is employed for use in a theatrical production and her salary pays for their dinner and changes their luck. Slight; air of reminiscence. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 25 no. 295 December 1889 Z1046211 1889 periodical issue 1889 pg. 222-223
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    New Zealand,
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    Pacific Region,
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