Talk:The Great Wombat Hunt of '38

I've decided the Great Wombat Hunt of '38 must have been in 1838. In 1738 it was just the Aboriginal Australians, who lived in harmony with the wombats, and the first wave of British settlers didn't arrive until 1788. In 1838 there was a wave of Prussian settlers, and since Schwift mentioned being tied up in the Great Purge in 1936, his family might have been Prussian settlers and he returned to the motherland at some point.

Original quote:

"A penal colony, like Australia. No greater hive of scum and villainy that the antipodes, my ma used to say. She was murdered by Australian wildlife. A pack of wombats crept up on her in the night, and cleft her in twain. We had to have four separate burials for the four separate parts of my ma. Which first had to be retrieved from the wombats of course. The great wombat hunt of ‘38 we called it. Me and my cousins all rode up and we scoured the outback for those demon bats, those womble spawn that came and cleft my ma. And we found my mother's bits in the wombats and we dined on wombats for the next month and with every bite of this grease dripping wombat haunch I loved the taste but I shed a tear for my late ma."