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  • Enter the Elephant – ep. 1
  • The Marble Man – ep. 2 (part 2)
  • The Marble Man – ep. 2 (part 1)
  • Have you seen my poncho cloak? – ep. 3
  • Champagne & Anarchy – ep. 4
  • Deadwood Dick & the Picture Show Panic – ep. 5
  • The Hatpin Menace – ep. 6
  • The Suburban Ghost – ep. 7 (season finale)
  • Agnes & Geraldine – Season 2: ep. 1
  • Buried Treasure
  • Tin-kettling
  • Clean Hands
  • A Bit of a Ventriloquist
  • What is Really Real?
  • A Pig in a Poke
  • Mr Denning’s Umbrage

    • Mr Denning’s Umbrage

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    Wherein we consider what counts as an amusement…


    Argus (Melbourne), 22 September 1855, p. 8 (‘Amusements’ column)


    A dance manual by one of Mr Denning’s teachers, Eugene Coulon. Find the full text of
    the second edition (c. 1852) here.


    Hm…