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Australia Revenged, by Boomerang
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Title: Australia Revenged
Author: Boomerang
Release Date: July 4, 2009 [EBook #29315]
Language: English
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AUSTRALIA REVENGED
BY "BOOMERANG"
LONDON: REMINGTON AND COMPANY, LIMITED 15, KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN AND SYDNEY 1894
All Rights Reserved
PREFACE.
Each character in this work is a type. The Australian characters may be met with every day in the Colonies. Nor are Villiers Wyckliffe and the Detlij Club distorted figments of the imagination; and the broken heart is a symbol of the aims of the one, and the object of the others, softened down so that the cheek of modesty may be spared a blush.
In those parts of the work where Colonial Governors are mentioned, they appear in a less heroic light than that in which one ordinarily sees them in print. Therefore for the further enlightenment of the rea