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Issue Details: First known date: 1887... vol. 22 no. 261 February 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.
St Valentine's Eve, single work short story romance
A London visitor determines to try a St Valentine's Day superstition and runs into a grave robbing expedition at the churchyard at midnight. Fortunately, the son of her hostess disguised as a ghost takes the reins and restores order ... Light. (PB)
(p. 307-309)
The Seal Ring, single work short story
A medical student's loss of a seal ring in an apple pie reveals a romance. Slight. (PB)
(p. 310)
Jack Browne's Mistake, single work short story
Tale of an impecunious British officer who hatches a scheme to borrow money from his aunt for a fictititious posting to Egypt. The elaborate hoax fails when his proxy dies and the news kills his aunt - but not before she has made a new will disinheriting him. Slight, light humour. (PB)
(p. 325-327)
The Pretty Baby, single work prose
A mother's love for her short-lived baby lasts all her life, even through the birth of other children. Pathos. (PB)
(p. 327)
Our Pardner : A Gold-Digger's Story, Robert Overton , single work short story
Four miners, three Englishmen and a negro from Virginia - an escaped slave - finally strike gold on an Australian goldfield (probably South Australian.) They leave for home aboard an English ship but Juberlo Tom never arrives as he dies saving the captain's young daughter from an attack by Islanders. Odd mixture of incident, character etc. (PB)
(p. 327-329)
The Horrors at Lowdell, W. W. , single work short story
Mark Sinclair is called to a farming district in Victoria where a newly married farmer is believed murdered. his rich odler wife has foreclosed on the farm she held the mortgage to, but found too late that he had a de facto wife and child who had legal title. She beheaded her husband and strangled her rival's child - and is herself tortured to death slowly by the mother for revenge - Sinclair not discovering it until years later. Violent story. (PB)
(p. 330-338)
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