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A new chum makes his way to a station beyond Wilcannia in outback New South Wales where he is tried out with lambing sheep, a damper, Warrigal Billy and two shepherds. Patchy tale with a certain rough interest. (PB)
A robbery of a Victorian country post office and store results in the murder and the ultimate detection of the murderer through a detective's sharp eye. (PB)
(p. 29-33)
Manassehi"Manasseh, lord of Judah, and the son",Henry Kendall,
single work poetry
(p. 33)
The Gold Commissioner's tale narrated while snowed in. A murder in March 1863 in Miller's Flat, N.Z., is mistakenly attributed to Job Johnson who is reprieved by his signature on a jury list. Also tales of the two other buried outside the hut who perished while seeking gold. (PB)
Biddy leaves her Irish home and journey's to Australia where she takes and loses a job as cook in the space of a day. Female version of the author's coarse Irish digger tales. (PB)