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1 A Strange Cipher C. Wood , 1897 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , March vol. 32 no. 382 1897; (p. 255-257) A farmer lost his farm to a boyhood friend turned enemy through their rivalry for the same woman's affections. The farmer and his wife died soon after, leaving their son Tom to work alone. Some time later the new farm owner hanged himself and left a mysterious message in his pocket in code. Tom finds it and years later with his friend the narrator he follows its deciphered instructions and digs up a tin box with a false bottom which contains a will leaving all the suicide's money to Tom. The friend's experience includes mistaking a white cow for a ghost and falling in a ditch. (PB)
1 Alone : A Bush Story C. Wood , 1897 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , January vol. 32 no. 380 1897; (p. 159-160) A swagman obtains a little work and food on a small farm, then walks on in his search for gold, becomes lost, and dies. (PB)
1 A Bush Crime C. Wood , 1896 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 31 no. 376 1896; (p. 680) Episodic narrative of two mining mates in Victoria in 1845. They appear not to have done well but leave one night without farewells. A dead man being licked by a dog and a drunken digger's confession of a murder through greed for gold complete the tale. Style of some interest. (PB)
1 A Vision of Artemis C. Wood , 1896 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , June vol. 31 no. 373 1896; (p. 505-507) A traveller to the Pink and White terraces in New Zealand's North Island has a vision of a beautiful nude maiden in a canoe joined by others until a sudden storm overturns her boat. He helps rescue her and as a reward she takes him to the maidens' crystal home within the earth. As she kisses him he awakes to find out he has fainted from toxic gas. Dreamy, insubstantial atmosphere; unsatisfyingly vague first person narrative. Interpolated with brief quotations, eg: from A. L. Gordan's "Ashtaroth", Tasso, etc. (PB)
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