Tall and freckled and sandy, Face of a country lout; That was the picture of Andy Middletons rouseabout. ... Read more
Australian Short Stories
Total Stories: 51
BERMAGUI: Where The Mystery was – and where mystery is. Sunset, and a sad, old mysterious bright gold ... Read more
THE MORAL should be revived. Therefore, this is a story with a moral. The lower end of Bill ... Read more
Oh, then tell us, Kings and Judges, where our meeting is to be, When the laws of men ... 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
“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