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Issue Details: First known date: 1887... vol. 22 no. 260 January 1887 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 1887 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Deacon's Turkey, single work prose
A Deacon despatched to buy a Christmas turkey spends his money drinking and carries home a stuffed pelican given to him as a joke to a very icy reception. Humour. (PB)
(p. 248)
All for Her : A Sailor's Story, single work short story romance
Romance of Northern England and Australia. A sailor falls in love with a rural English lass but after a humorous Christmas Eve serenading competition with the local poet he discovers that she loves another she sent away years before. The sailor tracks him down on the Australian goldfields and sends him home to her. Light entertaining romance; unusual narrative voice and mixture of genres. (PB)
(p. 249-250)
Grandfather's Slippers, single work short story
Juvenile tale of a brother and sister who quarrel over the style of slipper to give grandfather for New Year - and the selfless compromise reached. Exemplary. (PB)
(p. 255)
The Elder's Perquisites, single work prose
Humorous anecdote of the remuneration Dugal Magill extracted from his Lanarkshire kirk for his duties as an elder. (PB)
(p. 255)
A Bunch of Cyclamens, W. W. , single work short story
A murder in East Melbourne involves Mark Sinclair and his rival, Detective Campy, in solving it. A young man's murder in evening clothes with a bunch of cyclamens in his lapel implicates a pretty but calculating 24 year old in Richmond, a jealous young doctor, and a shamed mother who commits suicide. A prying woman next door assists Sinclair. (PB)
(p. 261-269)
The Lost New Year's Gift, single work short story
A poor London milliner gives her aunt's gift of a crown to a starving woman she finds on the doorstep of her lodgings. She tells her first lie and loses her position through the gift, and her mother and sisters become even more poor as she is forced to common sewing. Her lover becomes rich, moves away and marries another, and she herself dies - but on her deathbed the first installment of and from the starving woman is received. They migrate to American and prosper eventually. (PB)
(p. 270-273)
The Shoemaker's Coat, single work prose
English sketch of a shoemaker who orders a coat like a nobleman's - and the "nobleman's" revenge. Humour and moral. (PB)
(p. 273)
The Brass-Bound Chest, Lucy Blake , single work short story romance
Romance of the Irish gentry. Fendell Court has fallen into disrepair through the mysterious disappearance of the owner 30 years before and the inability of his heir to inherit without proof of death. A New Year's Eve diversion in opening an old box and dressing in the costume within draws the secret of the previous Lord's death from an old serving maid. Light. (PB)
(p. 280-282)
As in the Olden Time, single work prose
An old man and woman buy toys each Christmas Eve for their long dead children. Pathos. (PB)
(p. 284)
A Lost Christmas Dinner, single work prose
A Scottish guest eats an entire chicken meant for the whole family's Christmas dinner. (PB)
(p. 287)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
Includes the second instalment of C. J. M. Robertson's 'A Tale of the Deep', pp. 251-254.
Notes:
Includes the final instalment of Mrs Harriet Lewis' serial fiction, 'The Buried Legacy', pp. 256-260.
Notes:
Includes the fifth instalment of Marcus Clarke's serial fiction, 'His Natural Life', pp. 233-248.
Notes:
Includes seventh instalment of Karuna's 'Wild Craven's Daughter: An Australian Novel', pp. 273-279.
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