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Mr Jenkins' Mistake single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1896... 1896 Mr Jenkins' Mistake
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English tale of a London commercial traveller who mistakes another pug dog for his own and takes it with him to Manchester by rail where it costs him more than his own to keep. On his return he finds his own at home and that he has stolen another. He finds the old lady who owns it and attempts to return it through a firm of lawyers - the old lady mistakes her dog too. Slight. Humour? (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 31 no. 370 March 1896 Z1051848 1896 periodical issue 1896 pg. 340-341
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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