A series of bush stories published in Australian newspapers throughout the 1930s. Some of the works appear to ave been published earlier and without the umbrella title (for example, 'The Acid Test').
A man who forbids his wife to write for a living, as she wishes to, receives a nasty shock on an evening when he thinks she is visiting her sister.
Entranced into eloping with a travelling salesman on promise of marriage, a young girl finds herself stranded miles from home with no hope of getting back before her father returns and discovers her flight.
A tale of revenge for the mistreatment of the local Indigenous population at the hands of the men who have taken over the local cattle station.
A wealthy widow will only marry her suitor if he finds a steady young man to marry her daughter Sadie. But the plan backfires.
A young woman waits patiently for the return of her betrothed, despite her mother's pressure to marry a rich neighbour. But her resistance is worn down as the years pass with no word.
A young station girl, denied a promised trip to Sydney when a drought brings unexpected expenses, finds a way to raise funds and prevent a drover from 'pirating' her father's stock of grass.
A young woman elicits the assistance of a local man in tracking down her horse, which has vanished from its paddock.
Castles in the Air
1939
9510888
1939
single work
short story
An actress and the young son of a grizzled old selector fall in love, but his father and mother will not hear of their son marrying an actress.
A young Aboriginal man, riding home to spend Christmas with his wife and child, falls foul of a local landowner, who suspects him of cattle rustling.
A new stockman draws entirely false conclusions about his boss's daughter when he meets her for the first time on a stock muster.
