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Set on the Akhurst diggings around 1858, Jack Rigby takes Irishman Jimmy Roach as a business partner in a hotel. During a drinking bout Jimmy discovers a murdered Jewish pedlar. Eventually cleared of the murder he tracks down the guilty party with the aid of his mangy dog, Growl. (PB)
On Bartlemy (Bartholomew); Donnsybrook and Ballinasloe Fairs; Greenwich, Farlop, and Edmonton Fairs; the Jahrmarkts of Germany; Carnivals of Rome, Naples, and Cologne; a Russian Fair, an Irish pig fair; and the London Winter Fair on Ice etc. (PB)
A tale told by bachelors on last New Year's Eve; tragedy of a child's drowning during a fishing excursion for Murray cod from a station on the Broken River. (PB)
A young law student in the USA teaches school to support himself for several months. He promises not to flirt with any of the students but then meets Susie Auber ... Predictable romance. (PB)
A woman in a decaying New Zealand gold town deserts her young son whom the narrator cares for until the child's death. Years later he meets the woman again in a shanty on the isolated Dunstan track. (PB)
On the character of, and practical jokes played by the narrator's elder brother, Jack, on their parents' station in the outback, e. g. a visiting parson is waxed to a seat. (PB)