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Colonial Australian Popular Fiction Digital Archive
y separately published work icon Bushigrams selected work   short story   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 1897... 1897 Bushigrams
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Contents

* Contents derived from the London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,:Ward, Lock , 1897 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Lady Belverton's Secret, Guy Boothby , single work short story
A scheming wife persuades her politician husband to further his career through questionable means so they can move up the social ladder.
 (p. 1-14)
By Right of Conquest, Guy Boothby , single work short story
An ambitious mother tries to marry off her youngest daughter to an Admiral in the Navy (a man much older than the daughter). But all is not plain sailing.
 (p. 14-30)
Note: With illustration
Through Toil and Tribulation, Guy Boothby , single work short story (p. 31-44)
With Three Phantoms, Guy Boothby , single work short story
An explorer arrives in Darwin to look for traces of Leichhardt's expedition. His party are found dead months later on the edge of the Simpson Desert. Four years later the explorer is discovered and tells of an improbable story about ghost horsemen.
 (p. 45-66)
David and Jonathan, Guy Boothby , single work short story
A railway is being constructed and a labourer and his frail mate come looking for employment. The labourer enjoys fighting but heeded his mate to stop every time. His mate gets sick, the labourer fetches the doctor. The ending is totally unexpected.
 (p. 67-81)
Promotion, Guy Boothby , single work short story
Two telegraph operators man an isolated outpost in central Australia. One of them is promoted but contracts typhoid. His partner nurses him back to health but contracts typhoid himself. While sick he is also promoted but dies before he can enjoy it.
 (p. 81-95)
'Dog' Kellarey's Lucky Penny, Guy Boothby , single work short story
A grizzled prospector takes guardianship of a young girl after her father, his mate, dies. She brings him good luck on his claim and he gives her all his money. She is adopted by a lawyer but years later the prospector attends her marriage to a count.
 (p. 97-109)
One of the Cloth, Guy Boothby , single work short story crime
A police inspector, pursuing a bushranger, believes he has cornered him and is all set to make an arrest him when a reverend rides up to say he was robbed by the bushranger. However, all is not as it appears.
 (p. 110-121)
No. 29, Guy Boothby , single work short story (p. 122-139)
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With epigraph: 'In the gathering of night-gloom o'erhead, in/The still silent change,/All fire-flush'd when forest trees redden/On slopes of the range./When the gnarl'd, knotted trucks eucalyptian/Seem carved like weird columns Egyptian,/With curious device, quaint inscription,/And hieroglyph strange.' Adam Lindsay Gordon
A Private Arrangement, Guy Boothby , single work short story
The tale of a young man who has come to Australia looking to marry an heiress. He secures a position as a private secretary to the governor and it is the governor's wife who sets him up with a grazier's daughter. However, a few problems are encountered before a mutually satisfactory conclusion is reached.
 (p. 157-170)
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With epigraph: 'True love is at home on a carpet,/And mightily likes his ease;/And true love has an eye for a dinner,/And starves beneath shady trees./His wing is the fan of a lady,/His foot's an invisible thing,/And his arrow is tipped with a jewel,/And shot from a silver string.' Love in a Cottage.

Also contains a full page illustration.
The Curious Story of an Aide-de-Camp, Guy Boothby , single work short story (p. 171-189)
The New Hero and Leander, Guy Boothby , single work short story (p. 190-204)
His Better Half, Guy Boothby , single work short story (p. 204-218)
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With epigraph

Also contains two full-page illustrations.
Till Death Us Do Part, Guy Boothby , single work short story (p. 219-236)
The Great Dives Elopement, Guy Boothby , single work short story (p. 237-251)
The Reformation of the Jackeroo, Guy Boothby , single work short story (p. 252-269)
Note:

With epigraph

Also contains a full-page illustration.
For Official Recognition, Guy Boothby , single work short story (p. 270-280)
Heads and Tails at Bundilla, Guy Boothby , single work short story (p. 281-293)
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