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The Little Blue Boat single work   short story   romance  
Issue Details: First known date: 1897... 1897 The Little Blue Boat
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A gipsy's prediction introduces a young girl Kitty to her lover, a sea captain, but warns her of sorrow by water. Kitty is scared of water in any case and relieved when her husband returns from the sea. She wants him to destroy a little blue boat he built for her, expecially when a daughter is born - but is grateful he doesn't when she uses it despite her terror to save their daughter from the river tide. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 32 no. 389 October 1897 Z1074139 1897 periodical issue 1897 pg. 703-704
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