The show ring was a circular enclosure of about four acres, with a spiked batten fence round it, ... Read more
Australian Literature Short Stories
Total Stories: 50
People have got the impression that the merino is a gentle, bleating animal that gets its living without ... Read more
The first step in amateur gardening is to sit down and consider what good you are going to ... Read more
No tram ever goes to Randwick races without him; he is always fat, hairy, and assertive; he is ... Read more
The typical Australian bullock — long-horned, sullen-eyed, stupid, and vindictive — is bred away out in Queensland, on ... Read more
The firm of Sloper and Dodge, publishers and printers, was in great distress. These two enterprising individuals had ... Read more
JIM was born on Gulgong, New South Wales. We used to say on Gulgongand old diggers still talked ... Read more
“We young fellows,” said “Sympathy Joe” to Mitchell, after tea, in their first camp west the river — ... Read more
The Darling — which is either a muddy gutter or a second Mississippi — is about six times ... Read more
We were coming back from West Australia, steerage — Mitchell, the Oracle, and I. I had gone over ... Read more
Five or six half-grown larrikins sat on the cemented sill of the big window of Grinder Bros.’ Railway ... Read more
OLD MAC used to sleep in his wagon in fine weather, when he had no load, on his ... Read more