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1889
The Captain's Last Grip
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Tale set in the days before becoming a mounted trooper. Returning from droving cattle to Melbourne the narrator comes across a bush inn run by an old sea captain, his bosun now turning to drink, and a rough young man. He becomes very fond of the captain and returns at Christmas to find he has disappeared. With the help of the young man and a ghost he discovers the old man murdered by the bosun while drunk ... (PB)
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