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A visit to a spiritualist friend's house is preceded by several hot toddies with the result that the spirits are very active in moving furniture etc. Humorous. (PB)
No. I. The story of two goldfield mates who worked together in New Zealand and Australia, one of them perishing with two others in the winter cold years before. Told by the Gold Commissioner who heard the story while snowed in. (PB)
A young girl is restless at home with her respectable Methodist family and secretly meets and marries a handsome man of doubtful reputation. When he is arrested for embezzlement she reveals all to her family ... (PB)
Of a hypocritical, selfish, miserly old woman while she and the female narrator were sheltering from a storm on an old verandah. Sketch of an eccentric in Melbourne. [This tale is also interesting for its introductory references to Collins Street gentlemen.] (PB)
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Elijahi"Into that grand old Hebrew's soul sublime",Henry Kendall,
single work poetry