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Issue Details: First known date: 1894... vol. 29 no. 348 May 1894 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 1894 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Winning a £20 000 Prize, Mary Russell Mitford , single work short story
Recalls selecting a winning Irish lottery prize as a child in London with her father. The money perished but a dinner service remained. Themes: father-daughter; money; gambling. (PB)
(p. 472)
Ten Terrible Minutes, single work short story horror
Horrific encounter with escaped madman in a London railway carriage crossing London Bridge to New Cross. His mania is for travelling to the moon. (PB)
(p. 477-478)
The Old Man's Revenge, single work short story

Set in the Alleghany Mountains (USA?) in the late 1700s, an old man's isolated cabin attracts some locally camped British soldiers who hear his tale of betrayal and a daughter's seduction. The old man recognises one of the officers and kills them both in a leap over the neighbouring cliff. Brief; slight. (PB)

(p. 485)
A Tale of One Shirt, single work prose
A London washerwoman's humiliating revenge on a penniless society man who refused to pay her charges - exposing his penury to fellow dinner guests. Humour. (PB)
(p. 485)
A Lesson of the Leger, single work short story
English racing tale of the 1870s. The narrator, then a young and naive clerk just come into an inheritance, bets on a horse hespite the advice of the kindly gentleman he shares dinner with. The old man, the owner of the favourite who loses, in fact saves his bet. Light. (PB)
(p. 486-487)
How Much He Missed Her, single work prose
Very brief. A widower fends off the 'comfort' offered by a former lover and widow. Humour. (PB)
(p. 487)
The Three Photographs, F. L. Norton , single work short story romance
US romance of a politician's daughter engaged to a British nobleman and diplomat in Washington who breaks off the engagement when he tries to prevent her attending a dissipated ball. He rescues her from a rape but marries another and she becomes a nun. She helps his gambling wife in New Orleans, nurses her on her sickbed and is at last reunited with him. Light, melodramatic plot. (PB)
(p. 491-492)
Tabby, Chrome , single work short story
Tragic social allegory of an innocent tabby cat adopted by a refined lady who offers to teach her manners but only succeeds in laying the blame for her misdeeds on the younger cat. Beaten by the cook and cut by glass she is eventually drowned in a tank for catching a canary. Touching; strong class ironies. (PB)
(p. 493-494)
Cut Behind, single work prose
The Governor of Gibraltar fails to catch out an officer who he saw away from his post because the man caught the General's own carriage back to the guard. His eventual confession amuses the general ... Character and humour. (PB)
(p. 504)
Old Cooney, the Basketmaster, W. W. , single work short story
The disappearance of a beautiful young girl with her jewellery and her father's gold is explained as elopement with a dubious suitor - but Trooper Gibson suspects her murder after visiting an old basket weaver and his wife. A double murder emerges disguised as a swagman, he watches the old man - disguised as his own wife who he had killed - pull the girl's body from the water ... the girl's father disowned her when she took his money and lost her 'innocense'. (PB)
(p. 509-514)
The Jersey Caves, NSW, L. C. (fl. 1894) , single work prose travel
Trip of five persons to the caves from Tumut. Landscape, flies, Tumut River; lunch camp at Talbingo; Monaro and Campbell's Hotel overnight; Yarrangobilly and the Caves - visited on a guided tour ... Pleasant sociable description of trip; dawning of awareness of need for preservation by government briefly mentioned. (PB)
(p. 515-516)

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Notes:
Includes seventh instalment of Mrs Boulter's serial fiction, 'Renira, the Blacksmith's Daughter', pp. 479-484.
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Includes eighth instalment of serial fiction 'The Old Life's Shadows', pp. 495-504.
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Includest the final instalment of Robert P. Whitworth's serial fiction, 'A Perfect Day', pp. 488-490.
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Includest the first instalment of Miss Maggie Swan's serial fiction, 'Through Love to Repentance', pp. 465-472.
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Includes first instalment of Lionel Sparrow' serial fiction, 'The Pearl of the White Hills', pp. 505-508.
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