Cirrus@Austlit

An old miner, a young squatter, and a sickly youth work gold claims side by side in the bush. The squatter alone has no luck and determines to murder the old miner - but only in his will is the full tragedy revealed. (PB)

On the discouragement of those without anyone to cheer them. (PB)

A schoolteacher detects a prankster through a spelling test. (PB)

How Teddy Mulchany got a cellar dug in a very short time - digging for money. (PB)

Tragedy of NZ coastal gold mining - through forgetfulness and whisky a young miner drowns after a cave-in. Strong story with the atmosphere of St Patrick's Day and a family morning counterpointing the fatality. (PB)

A doctor's attempts to cure a patient of overindulgence. (PB)

On scenery and the true appreciation of it. Includes brief comments on Australia's scenery. (PB)

Tale of mistaken love that ended through tragic misunderstandings. Gentle, sad romance. (PB)

A lodger is accepted into a Melbourne household who has recovered from earlier fits of insanity. One night his mania is rekindled by alcohol and a night of terror follows. (PB)

The family of a sea captain are left with very small means in Australia when he dies of a fever. Gerald the son returns to England and is apprenticed to the law under a clever uncle. Bertha eventually meets and is engaged to a visiting Englishman, Gerald is successful in England and also becomes engaged. Unknown to them all family connections grow ever more intricate ... (PB)

Violent encounters with a colonial cow. (PB)

Mock romance of England and Australia; an idle English swell wins the hand of his fair lady over the claims of a one-legged German count - courtesy of a lucky bet on the 1872 Melbourne Cup and the death of five cousins in a railway accident shortly followed by two more deaths which made him the Earl of Doodledum. (PB)

Charlotte quarrels with her lover, Hero, just before he is drowned in a storm at sea off the Victorian coast. (PB)

Peter Dowling is transported to Van Diemen's Land for sheep-stealing, vowing to escape. He is assigned to Captian Griffith (old Rasper) who uses his keen eye in opossum hunting. Dowling escapes and lives in the bush for months, escapes from capture once, is betrayed at last but is placed in the police service. Competent but, apart from the subject matter, not unusual. (PB)

Tale of the journey from Wilcannia to Palmerston with a mob of sheep and a hundred horses made by two brothers from Colac, Victoria and the wife of the elder brother. On their march toward the Yam Creek gold-rush the younger brother is killed by their Aboriginal guide, and the wife dies soon after arriving at Palmerston with her husband. (PB)

On the relish of forbidden things, and the role of strictures in fostering it. (PB)

Recounts the lonely drowning of a young man attempting to visit a local girl and her family near the goldfields where he ran a business. The narrator was a squatter. (PB)

Tale told by an acquaintance met on the road to Kiama between Shoalhaven and Gerrigong of his days as a convict. Recounts the sufferings of three convicts also employed on a station in the Shoalhaven district years before - who ultimately drew straws to decide which of them should be murdered, who should kill him and so be hung; and who should turn queen's evidence and be pardoned. The denoument was not exactly thus ... (PB)

Description of a hair-dressing competition at the infamous Paris nightclub, Salle Valentino. (PB)

A tale told between watches of a brutal captain who was tricked out of flogging an innocent sailor by a sham magician in Naples. Set on the NY ship, Vineyard. (PB)