Cirrus@Austlit

Described by Miller as 'amusing sketches of two quacks and other "practitioners" in a N.S.W. country town'; includes 'some political references'. (Source: Miller, Australian Literature from its Beginnings to 1935, 1940)

Miller states that the original version of this work was printed in the Australian Magazine in 1908.

Dedication: To You.
To you, who love the lighter vein,
Who scan the joke with laughter free.
By whom the sad-faced Care is slain
With mirth thrusts from Life's comedy;

To you, the gods have blest to view
This drear old world with hat awry,
Who see a-grin with humour true,
The clown on Life's stage whirling by;

To you, I launch this book, and pray
The spring from whence your humour flows
May find a field whereon to spray
The dews that quench Life's kindling woes.
'Paul Cupid'