The sporting men of Mulligan’s were an exceedingly knowing lot; in fact, they had obtained the name amongst ... Read more
Australian Short Stories
Total Stories: 51
We were training two horses for the Buckatowndown races — an old grey warrior called Tricolor — better ... Read more
Buckalong was a big freehold of some 80,000 acres, belonging to an absentee syndicate, and therefore run in ... Read more
The show ring was a circular enclosure of about four acres, with a spiked batten fence round it, ... Read more
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
WHEN we were up country on the selection, we had a rooster at our place, named Bill, said ... Read more
I. She rode slowly down the steep siding from the main road to a track in the bed ... Read more
They called him Black Joe, and me White Joe, by way of distinction and for the convenience of ... Read more
There were about a dozen of us jammed into the coach, on the box seat and hanging on ... Read more
JIM was born on Gulgong, New South Wales. We used to say on Gulgongand old diggers still talked ... Read more