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Epigraph: I don't care what people do, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - King Edward VII
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Lansdowne
, 1961 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Don't Frighten the Horses : Introduction, single work prose humour (p. 7-12)
- On Making Friends: How to Lose Friends and Nauseate People, single work prose humour (p. 15-17)
- On Making Friends : After I've Called You Fizzgig, How Can I Call You Friend?, single work prose humour (p. 17-20)
- On Making Friends: Santas of the World Unite- You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Ziffs!, single work prose humour (p. 20-22)
- On Form: The Bosomy Belles of Bayswater Road, single work prose humour (p. 25-27)
- On Form : Form Guide for a Form-Filler-Inner, single work prose humour (p. 27-30)
- On Form: Woof!, single work prose humour (p. 30-33)
- On Form: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Grafter, single work prose humour (p. 33-35)
- On Literature: The Beastly Booksellers of Bourke Street, single work prose humour (p. 39-41)
- On Literature: O Great Silent One- Get Off My Back!, single work prose humour (p. 42-44)
- On Literature : Knees Up Mother Chatterley, single work prose humour (p. 44-47)
- On Literature: Is There a Stranger Within the Gates? (If So- Scat!), single work prose humour (p. 47-49)
- On Banking: Further Memoirs of a Financial Wizard, single work prose humour (p. 53-55)
- On Banking: The Great Bank Robbery:, single work prose humour (p. 55-57)
- On Banking: Strange Encounter (Where Mastermind Meets Mastermind), single work prose humour (p. 58-60)
- On Banking: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Scrooge, single work prose humour (p. 61-63)
- On People : Put Down Thy Glasses- Londinium to a Brick, Ben-Hur Winneth, single work prose humour (p. 67-69)
- On People: The Butler Done It!, single work prose humour (p. 69-72)
- On People : Hands Across the Yarra, single work prose humour (p. 72-74)
- On People: Be Prepared (For Anything, Including Death Adders), single work prose humour (p. 75-77)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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The Lower Life
1961
single work
review
— Appears in: Nation , 2 December 1961; (p. 22-23)
— Review of Don't Frighten the Horses 1961 selected work prose
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The Lower Life
1961
single work
review
— Appears in: Nation , 2 December 1961; (p. 22-23)
— Review of Don't Frighten the Horses 1961 selected work prose
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