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The Union Buries Its Dead single work   short story   humour  
Alternative title: The Union Buries Its Dead : A Bushman's Funeral. A Sketch from Life
  • Author:agent Henry Lawson http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/lawson-henry
Issue Details: First known date: 1893... 1893 The Union Buries Its Dead
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Text Unit Name Institution Year
The Union Buries Its Dead The Union Buries Its Dead : A Bushman's Funeral. A Sketch from Life Henry Lawson , 1893 single work short story humour (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Short Stories in Prose and Verse 1894; (p. 46-53) While the Billy Boils 1896; (p. 91-97) Capajon : Fifty-Four Short Stories Published 1921-1933 1933; (p. 324-328) A Century of Australian Short Stories 1963; (p. 65-68) The Bush Undertaker and Other Stories 1970; (p. 25-29) While the Billy Boils : 87 Stories from the Prose Works of Henry Lawson 1970; (p. 55 - 59)

— Appears in: Truth , 16 April 1893; The Country I Come From 1901; (p. 44-51) While the Billy Boils : The Original Newspaper Versions 2013; (p. 100-108)
Describes a bush funeral.
Introduction to Fiction: Postcolonial Short Fiction Texas Christian University 2012
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