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Issue Details: First known date: 1937... 10 November 1937 of The Queenslander est. 1866 The Queenslander
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* Contents derived from the , 1937 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Amazing Courage of Bush-Children : Heroic Achievments of Billy Bacon and Lindsay McGann, Bernard Cronin , single work column
This, the fourth article in 'Epics of the Bush', credits bush children with stoicism and self-reliance and demonstrates this with two stories of heroic children. Billy Bacon, at ten and a half, put his two younger siblings into a makeshift cart and took them to safety after his mother died during an epileptic fit, whilst Lindsay McGann climbed a two hundred feet long mine shaft to fetch help for two friends who had been injured in a fall down the shaft.
(p. 3,37)
The Carnivali"Long years agone, ere earth began", Den , single work poetry (p. 4)
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