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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 25, 1936
Page
3
A fragmentary dialogue features De WITTS Catarrhal Dream and a wager in which Brown Jamieson and a burglar discuss cigars dog licences and a safe. A Highland pensioner traveling to Glasgow provokes comic confusion as a deckhand tells her to go to the Devil then rescinds it after she confirms her identity.
A convoluted tale recalls a daring bank theft in British East Africa. A gang hijacked a wagon and loaded a safe, marching it across months to a distant destination while guards struggled to guard the cash. The operation spanned a Kenyan town and Nairobi before evolving into a dependable colonial banking routine.
The piece muses on how a man’s life is full of contradictions. He is praised when generous and blamed when thrifty, trusted when patriotic yet accused of gain, religious yet branded the same. It asks why worry about such paradoxes.
Morphy, while taking a shot, is approached by a young man who claims ownership of the fields. The Irishman questions the claim and hears the youth say the land was handed down from ancestors. The youth suggests the ancestors received it in battle, prompting Morphy to respond with a sharp remark about fighting for the land.
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