| Description |
xiv, 336 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 326-335) |
| Contents |
The ghost upon the rail / John Lang -- How a claim was nearly jumped in Gum-Tree Gully / Tasma -- The parson's blackboy / Ernest Favenc -- The heart-breaking of Anstey's Bess / Price Warung -- The drover's wife / Henry Lawson -- The loaded dog / Henry Lawson -- The Union buries its dead / Henry Lawson -- The night we watched for wallabies / Steele Rudd -- Squeaker's mate / Barbara Baynton -- A Saturday at Spats' / Edward Dyson -- The birthday / Vance Palmer -- The dingo / Vance Palmer -- The cooboo / Katharine Susannah Prichard -- And women must weep / Henry Handel Richardson -- The sojourners / Frank Dalby Davison -- The woman from the bend / Don Edwards -- Short shift Saturday / Gavin Casey -- Solemn mass / Dal Stivens -- The three jolly foxes / Douglas Stewart -- The persimmon tree / Marjorie Barnard -- Hawkins' pigs / Brian James -- Living / Peter Cowan -- Stiff luck for the colonel / Cecil Mann -- Tell us about the turkey, Jo / Alan Marshall -- What else is there? / Margaret Trist -- Execution : Sydney 18- / Hugh McCrae -- The weeping fig / Judith Wright -- The sleeping doll / John Morrison -- Well, what do you say to the boy? / Judah L. Waten -- Old Heinrich and the lambing ewe / Eric Schlunke -- That Barambah mob / David Forrest -- Fiend and friend / Hal Porter -- Bush boy, poor boy / James Aldridge -- An extraordinary thing / Ray Mathew -- The letters / Patrick White. |
| Subject |
Short stories, Australian.
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Short stories, Australian. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Hadgraft, Cecil.
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Wilson, Richard Bartley Joseph.
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