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y separately published work icon A Child's Corner Book : Stories for Boys and Girls selected work   children's fiction   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1876... 1876 A Child's Corner Book : Stories for Boys and Girls
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* Contents derived from the London,
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Western Europe, Europe,: Edinburgh,
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Western Europe, Europe,:W. P. Nimmo , 1876 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Bunyip, Richard Rowe , single work children's fiction children's
In the time before Queensland was a State, the narrator, a 'new chum', joins Steve the Poacher, a convict released to a sheep station, on a duck-hunting outing. This story about an encounter with an imaginary bunyip is a charming study of the colonial vernacular, for example: 'skeared' [scared], 'ketched' [caught], 'summut' [something], 'airthquake' [earthquake].
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