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Issue Details: First known date: 1870... vol. 6 no. 67 December 1870 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 1870 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Pretty Dick, Marcus Clarke , single work short story
Story of the seven-year-old shepherd's son who gets lost in the bush and dies.
 (p. 189-191)
Note: By the author of Long Odds
The Christmas Mystery, single work short story mystery
A London lawyer spends Christmas in Lincolnshire but receives a mysterious letter before he departs. His encounter with a ghost in the train which carries him into the country leads him to solve the murder of the seduced woman. (PB)
 (p. 192-194)
Our Justice's First Court, An Old Settler , single work short story
On tough justice by local characters in the early days of a bush settlement. (PB)
 (p. 194)
The Legacy Hunters, J. Clark , single work short story
Two avaricious cousins pay court to an old and rich widow but she discovers a long lost niece and rewards them as they deserved. (PB)
 (p. 195)
In a Smoking-Carriage, T. M. A. , single work prose
On the camaraderie of smokers during a railway journey. (PB)
 (p. 196)
Rizpahi"Said one who led the spears of swarthy Gad,", Henry Kendall , single work poetry (p. 196)
Haye's Castle : A Tale for Christmas, Berenice Kyneton , single work short story horror
A family with five daughters take a house in the English countryside, but after three nights troubled by ghosts discover a terrible vault with grisly human remains under the house. (PB)
 (p. 209-210)
A Frightful Situation, Tom Tallfern , single work short story humour
A rambler's tale of his attempt to prevent a fellow passenger's apparent suicide on a stormy voyage to N. Z. A German sausage proves instrumental. Slow humour. (PB)
 (p. 211)
The Twenty-Ninth of November, W. W. , single work short story
Set in a Victorian bush township, Mark Sinclair becomes enmeshed in a story of murder, with alcohol and ambition mixed in equal parts. (PB)
 (p. 214-217)
What is Beauty?, single work prose humour
Humorous description of an ill-assorted pair of lovers. (PB)
 (p. 217)
Darling, Theresa Tasmania , single work short story
Of a remarkably good and winning child born into an extended family which had had only boys born for 70 years. Her goodness foretells her early death and she leaves a loving legacy. Sentimental tale. (PB)
 (p. 222-224)
Deeply Indebted, Floy , single work short story
A young man courts a rich heiress as his father wishes but through a clever stratagem marries his true love. (PB)
 (p. 225-226)
My Last Lesson in Colonial Experience, Wanora , single work short story
The narrator is assigned to look after the rations and seven flocks of sheep thirty miles from the station house, but is played tricks on by his aboriginal guide, chases an emu and gets lost before a shepherd sets him on the right path. Patchy but has a certain rough interest. (PB)
 (p. 226-227)
An Ugly Passenger, single work prose
Anecdote of the escape of a ravening hyena on board an East India ship on the voyage from India to England, and its brave recapture. (PB)
 (p. 227)
The Man who Killed the Wolves, M. K. , single work short story
A man returns to claim his lover but her father refuses his consent because of the man's poverty. Ultimately the man's courage and assets are revealed. Set in North America, the father and his family of German descent keep a public-house. (PB)
 (p. 228)
The Fisherman's Turkey : An American Story of Frost-Bound Christmas, H. S. Prescott , single work short story
A fisherman's family rediscover their love for each other after a night when first the father and then the children are feared dead under the river ice. A Christmas turkey ensures the season is celebrated in traditional American style. (PB)
 (p. 229-232)
Womanly Example, single work prose
On US President Washington's wife and her teaching to US women about the virtues of simple fashion. She quotes a poem by Mrs Warren. (PB)
 (p. 238)
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Notes:
Includes the tenth instalment of Leon Lewis' 'The Trapper's Last Trail', pp. 197-203.
Notes:
Includes tenth instalment of Marcus Clarke's serial fiction 'His Natural Life', pp. 181-185.
Notes:
Includes the final instalement of serial fiction 'The Unlucky Investment', pp. 205-209.
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