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Issue Details: First known date: 1887... vol. 23 no. 270 November 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.
By and By, single work prose
A man's visits from the angel of death throughout his life - and his final permission to join her. (PB)
 (p. 129)
The Brown Portmanteau, single work short story horror crime
English club tale of a murderous dream. A young married gentleman about to leave for Scotland to recover from a sick liver dreams that he murders a fellow club member. The dead man follows him in the portmanteau he tumbles the body into. Slight, predictable, some humour. (PB)
 (p. 140-143)
Donald McDonald, Southern Cross (fl. ca.1887-1890) , single work short story
Australian tale of romance and adventure set around a country station in the 1820s. Flora Carmichael saves her childhood companion and fiancee Donald McDonald from the bushrangers she hears plotting to rob him of £500 he is carrying to purchase the farm they will live on when married. Light; interesting digressions on the heat and countryside, books and friendship. (PB)
 (p. 144-146)
I Must Keep This Gate Shut, single work prose
An English farm boy's faithfulness to his duty wins the approval of the Duke of Wellington. Very slight. (PB)
 (p. 151)
That Bell : A Story for Boys, single work short story
A schoolboy removes the tongue from the boarding school bell and earns everyone a longer sleep - but when he attempts to repeat the trick that afternoon he is caught on a ledge and nearly frozen. Light, entertaining juvenile tale. (PB)
 (p. 151-152)
A Traveller's Story, Arthur L. Meserve , single work short story
Two English travellers meet at an isolated hotel in Northern Lombardy during a storm. The recital by one of his near murder in the Austrian Alps when forced into an isolated dwelling by darkness and the weather exposes their fellow guest as his would-be murderer. [Variation on the attempted murder of travellers by foreign/isolated hosts genre.] (PB)
 (p. 153-156)
A Dream That Was No Dream, W. W. , single work short story

Set in a Victorian country township, Sinclair - with the help of a man camping out on his way to a nearby property, a ball of wool, an abandoned mistress - proves the guilt of a brutal murderer. Spurned by the girl, the murderer killed her and stuffed her in a hollow log ... (PB)

 (p. 156-162)
The Legend of the Two Sacks, single work prose
On travellers' different ways of approaching life - putting their own good deeds in front or behind and the sins of others likewise. Exemplary allegory. (PB)
 (p. 164)
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