A Casual Camper.
When James Brown, who is 62 years of age, awoke to find the tent in which he was camping near Forbes (New South Wales) a mass of flames, he wrapped the blankets and sheets around his body and rolled the length of the tent under the flap, and out into the open air. He received a singed head and face, but otherwise was unhurt. Brown watched his worldly belongings going up in smoke, and then calmly took an unburnt piece of the tent from the smouldering ruins, wrapped it around himself, and went to sleep for the remainder of the night in the open under a gum tree.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4607, 9 October 1934, Page 2
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111A Casual Camper. King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4607, 9 October 1934, Page 2
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