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Issue Details: First known date: 1873... vol. 8 no. 94 March 1873 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1873 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Larry McCann's Apprenticeship : An Irish Fairy Legend, single work short story
A farmer's son in Ireland's Wicklow Mountains turns carpenter after an apprenticeship to the fairies - and so wins his bride. Told by an Irish servant to her master's children in Australia, in brogue of varying thickness. (PB)
 (p. 353-357)
The Story of a Valentine, single work short story
An American romance set in a small village. A poor parson pleads for the doctor's daughter, herself an M.D., under the guise of telling a story. This story he later tells to the narrator - who writes it without 'seasoning' e.g. murder, arsenic, etc. (PB)
 (p. 366-367)
Without Reserve: 'London Society', single work short story
A romance between a couple in their 70s is rekindled when he loses everything in a bank failure and she buys it back for him and his daughter. Set in a small English village. (PB)
 (p. 379-383)
A Saunter in Sydney Market, single work prose
A walk through Sydney's fruit, farm produce, rare birds, and meat markets - and a brief description of the police officer next door. (PB)
 (p. 397-398)
Popping in Error, Myra Mulgrave , single work short story
Another tale of Dinglewood, the English village, regarding a relative of the Denzils' - young Llewellyn - and two 'sisters' who never went by their Christian names. A mistaken marriage proposal produces confusion for a time ... (PB)
 (p. 399-403)
The Indian Countess, R. W. Newman , single work short story
A Frenchman of good birth leaves Paris for the USA to escape the French Revolution. There - in the Oneida country - an Indian woman saves him, he joins her tribe and marries her. (PB)
 (p. 404)
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