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Issue Details: First known date: 1872... vol. 7 no. 80 January 1872 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 1872 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
My Bolting Hunter, Craven , single work short story
How a Melbourne bachelor meets and marries his Anna Maria, both through the agency of a bolting horse. (PB)
 (p. 241-252)
Australia Felix - Past, Present and Future, T. M. A. , single work prose
Allegory of the settling of Victoria by Agricola and Hortensia, their daughters Flora and Pomora, and friend Arboris, and of the prosperous future. (PB)
 (p. 253)
A Broken Link, F. L. Norton , single work short story
On the secret marriage of the heir of a Somersetshire baronet, his disinheritance and poverty in Australia, and eventual restoration with his wife and children to his father's affections. Rudimentary and sentimental. (PB)
 (p. 254-255)
Our Colonial Christmases, Waif Wander , single work prose
Memories of several Christmas Days spent in Australia - the death of a friend climbing a hill, a frustrated wedding on the diggings, threshing wheat, and a picnic at Brighton beach. (PB)
 (p. 255-256)
Morgan's Valentine, S. A. Frost , single work short story
The love between an orphaned girl and a one-time blacksmith is frustrated for a time by an intercepted and altered letter. Light romance. (PB)
 (p. 264-267)
My First Whaling Cruise, Junior Tasman , single work short story
The narrator, born in Hobart Town in 1836, was the son of a well-to-do mechanic and had a good education until he ran away to sea when around 14 years old. At first he was involved in the she-oak trade then took up whaling in the Pacific. (PB)
 (p. 281-285)
California Jim's Queer Story, James Lockhart , single work short story
Set in New Zealand on the diggings, a story of a small savage tribe in a hidden valley near Lake Wanaka and a Scotsman who lived with them - accidentally discovered by California Jim on a journey in the area. (PB)
 (p. 287-290)
Our Cook's Revenge, S. C. J. , single work short story
In 1843 on the ship Hunter between Smyrna and Gibraltar, under an American captain, an African cook takes his revenge for being knocked down by the captain in the concoction of arsenic soup. Rough, serviceable tale. (PB)
 (p. 291-292)
Mere Hints on Dreaming, single work prose
On the probable causes of dreams; includes an account of a dream. (PB)
 (p. 292)
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Notes:
Includes first instalment of 'Jack Fortune', pp. 268-272.
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Includes the fifth instalment of W. W.'s 'The Bushranger's Autobiography', pp. 274-281.
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Includes eleventh instalment of Ik Marvel's 'Dream Life', pp. 285-287.
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Includes twenty-second instalment of Marcus Clarke's serial fiction 'His Natural Life', pp. 257-264.
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Includes the 22nd instalment of Marcus Clarke's 'His Natural Life', pp. 257-264.
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