Cirrus@Austlit

Sketches - and a poem - on the different persons waiting on the mail; bushrangers, an English widow whose son has died in the Australian bush; an Irish miner whose family are suffering at home; a disappointed Melbourne girl, etc. (PB)

On three domestic 'helps' experienced by the narrator and her family. (PB)

When Frank Fuller's German wife Marguerite is believed dead after a ship is lost at sea, he asks his cousin to marry him and look after his children. On the wedding day, Marguerite appears ... Light. (PB)

On animals' entitlement to good treatment. (PB)

On the killing of the bushranger, Starbeam, near the Victorian border, and the eventual recovery of his stolen herd through a cross-marked card. (PB)

Set in Waikato, N.Z., around 1835, the tale of a series of murders of doctors by a lunatic who believed they were delaying the transmigration of souls. (PB)

A jilted lover takes a terrible revenge on her false fiancee - involving amateur dramatics and a tragic railway journey with his new wife. (PB)

On an ugly vain 'learned' Irishman and how his nugget is found - but lost to him. Set on the Victorian goldfields. Interesting for Larry's role as poet. (PB)

A faithful English girl determines to murder her flirtatious friend for stealing away her lover, but all is resolved in a fever. Light. (PB)

On practical jokes involving bedbugs and bottled beeswax played by officers in the US army. (PB)

Lilias Wayland repays £100 which her brother gained through forgery by marrying the handsome victim. (PB)

Of her childhood in Kent, short time at a Maidstone boarding school, her mother's death and father's subsequent remarriage. After her stepmother has a son she marries and migrates to Australia but her husband dies on the voyage and her stepmother intercepts her letter to her father. Finally, after his death and a time of poverty, she marries a rich husband and prospers. (PB)