Pocket edition. Original red cloth*, 1916

Component identifier:

Item 33(g)

Content Summary:

Extra-illustrated across two end-papers with drawings in colour, and lively description of scenes at the Hong Kong Cafe, in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne, in which Hal Gye participated. He related the incidents to Dennis who wrote them into the poem 'Duck an' Fowl'. 'It always amused me, when, while I was ordering duck and fowl, the fowls and ducks (in crates and before my eyes) voiced their protests, it seemed, at the nature of my order. Yours Hal Gye, January 1954.'

As in preceding copy, the caption to illustration reads, 'Yeh ort'.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection was purchased from Harry Chaplin in 1981.

Names:

Chaplin, Harry F.

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