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Issue Details: First known date: 1873... vol. 8 no. 98 July 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.
Who Was She?, H. L. , single work prose
A lonely woman's grave in the bush prompts speculation. (PB)
(p. 535)
Little Words, single work prose
Instances of the need to use words sparingly and appropriately. (PB)
(p. 535)
The Salted Claim, W. W. , single work short story
An American store-owner on a deserted Victorian diggings 'salts' his claim to attract fresh diggers. He is discovered and punished by the diggers, but his daughter's lover discovers a large nugget in the meantime and marries her; also revealing her true father ... (PB)
(p. 593-597)
The Two Stowaways, C. C. F. , single work short story
Two women are discovered by the steerage passengers on a voyage between Adelaide and Melbourne. When the captain discovers them during rough seas he puts them off at desolate Kangaroo Island - and no more is heard ... (PB)
(p. 607-608)
Canine Sagacity, single work prose
Account of a dog's eventual comprehension and compliance with his master's attempts to remove hedgehog quills from his mouth. (PB)
(p. 608)
An Old Bachelor's Story, M. K. D. , single work short story
A bachelor tells of his love for Grace Hunter forty years before, and how his flirtation caused a quarrel that separated them - permanently. She never arrived home. (PB)
(p. 609)
My Tramp, single work short story
A stranger comes to a peaceful village in the US as a tramp and gains work with a local farmer. When his convict past is discovered he is shunned by the town's respectable citizens - until one night he rescues Esther and her employer from robbers ... Social questioning of the possibility of convict reformation, love etc.
(p. 614-619)
Gitto Bach, single work short story myth/legend
Welsh legend of Gitto Bach, stolen away by the fairies, and of others who had seen them dance. As narrated by Shone Thomos Shone Rhytherch. (PB)
(p. 619)
From Port Albert to Melbourne : A Traveller's Diary, single work prose travel
A chance traveller in stranded in Port Albert for three days and describes the rustic monotony of the township and its inhabitants through his experiences there. (PB)
(p. 620-621)
Love's Young Dream, M. K. D. , single work prose
The raptures of first love and their collapse. (PB)
(p. 621)
The Man at the Light-House, M. K. D. , single work short story
A sailor down on his luck is hired by a light-house keeper as his assistant. A ghost is at the bottom of the keeper's secrecy and fears - a murdered wife ... (PB)
(p. 622-623)
A Duel at Sea, Prentiss (Colonel) Ingraham , single work short story
The captain and first-mate of a schooner sunk between a South American port and New York duel on the surviving raft (a large one!) for the safety of the ship's owner, his wife and their beautiful daughter. High romance bordering on the highly unlikely. (PB)
(p. 623-624)
A Rigmarole about Tears, Isabel , single work prose
A tearless woman discourses on the uses and advantages of tears in women - as an expression of feeling, and a safety valve comparable to a man's smoking. (PB)
(p. 636)
The Ancient Spinster and the Angel : A Tale for the Censorious, single work short story
Scenes in a small town visited by Miss Nettire, spinster, and an Angel show Miss Nettire that the neighbours she judged so hardly are more Christian than she ... Moral tale. (PB)
(p. 637-638)
Hugh and I : A Tale of the Cremorne Flood, Emme , single work short story
A flood invades the house of a proud Victorian squatter and prompts him to allow his grand-daughter to marry their rescuer, the son of an ex-convict. Set on a country station. (PB)
(p. 642-644)

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Notes:
Includes final instalment of Henry Stoddard's 'The Two Secrets', pp. 639-642.
Notes:
Includes sixth instalment of Marcus Clarke's 'Long Odds', pp. 625-634.
Notes:
Includes second instalment of T. M. A.'s 'Colonial Circumstances: Or, Ups, Downs, and Ups', pp. 610-614.
Notes:
Includes the final instalment of 'Mark Heber; or, a Young Maiden's Perils', pp. 598-607.
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