It is on record (in a booklet written by Guy Innes) that wh… - C. J. Dennis

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It is on record (in a booklet written by Guy Innes) that when Dennis decided to migrate from South Australia he telegraphed his father, "Send ten pounds. Going ", to which appeal the old man promptly replied, "Sending nothing. Go to hell!"

C. J. Dennis

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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis (7 September 1876 – 22 June 1938), better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet and journalist known for his best-selling verse novel (1915). Alongside his contemporaries and occasional collaborators Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, Dennis helped popularise in literature, earning him the title "the laureate of the ".

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Alternative Names: Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

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But it must not be thought that I abjure all physical effort. Only the day before yesterday I pulled up a dandelion. Next week I shall probably be busy pulling up the two other dandelions that will inevitably spring up in that place to avenge their brother. Dandelions are like that.

We done poor Muvver proud when she went out— A slap-up send-orf, trimmed wiv tears an' crape.

"How would I hold a husband? Is it that you’re askin’ me?
If it’s needful to hold, that is easily told— Be the scruff of his neck!" said she.

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