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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Mar 05, 1948
Page
12
A struggling author pleads with a publisher who rejects unknown writers. The firm accepts only names the author cannot claim. In a bid to prove himself, the suitor boasts of a famous acquaintance while a inquiring squire tests a labourer on education and literacy, exposing class gaps.
The excerpt presents a string of humorous lines among townspeople and officials. Characters include a chief of police, a fire chief, a barber, a husband and wife, a boy, a dog, and a scientist making playful remarks about tonics, canaries, eggs, wallets, germs, and Romeo and Juliet.
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