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The collection presents a series of short, often humorous sketches and essays that evoke life in a small rural township: community gatherings and wartime homecomings, farm chores and domestic resourcefulness, local entertainments, odd characters and minor crises such as drought or an aeroplane visit. Interspersed are translations, literary reflections and light social commentary on topics ranging from psychology and medicine to provincial manners. The tone alternates between affectionate reminiscence and gentle satire, sketching daily routines, public rituals and the inventive frugality of country living.

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Title: Petunia again

Sketches

Author: S. Elizabeth Jackson

Release date: April 25, 2025 [eBook #75957]

Language: English

Original publication: Adelaide: G. Hassell & Son, 1920

Credits: Charlene Taylor, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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Petunia Again

SKETCHES

BY S. ELIZABETH JACKSON

A book is very like a kite, being made of paper and sent out at a venture.

G. K. Chesterton.

ADELAIDE
G. HASSELL & SON
1920

TO

MY GRANDFATHER

J.T.C.

The little girl that was me: "I've nothing to read in the train."

My grandfather: "And you won't need anything. There will be things to see and people to listen to."