This issue of the Australian Journal also includes:
'A city dweller, Jack, travels to outback New South Wales for a holiday in the summer of 1860. He enjoys the outdoor life, is chased by a wild bull and breaks his arm, and recovers in a shepherd's hut where he is visited by two women in what he thinks is a dream. The story ends with his marriage to one of them, the beautiful Ethel Halstead, and his metamorphosis into a squatter.' (PB)
'Set in Scotland, the tale of Alice Thompson's death through lack of the lover her father forbade her to see.' (PB)
A parting lover mistakes his loved one's tears for sorrow; in fact, her distress is caused by his treading on her corn.