AustLit

A lonely woman's grave in the bush prompts speculation. (PB)

Instances of the need to use words sparingly and appropriately. (PB)

An American store-owner on a deserted Victorian diggings 'salts' his claim to attract fresh diggers. He is discovered and punished by the diggers, but his daughter's lover discovers a large nugget in the meantime and marries her; also revealing her true father ... (PB)

Two women are discovered by the steerage passengers on a voyage between Adelaide and Melbourne. When the captain discovers them during rough seas he puts them off at desolate Kangaroo Island - and no more is heard ... (PB)

Account of a dog's eventual comprehension and compliance with his master's attempts to remove hedgehog quills from his mouth. (PB)

A bachelor tells of his love for Grace Hunter forty years before, and how his flirtation caused a quarrel that separated them - permanently. She never arrived home. (PB)

A stranger comes to a peaceful village in the US as a tramp and gains work with a local farmer. When his convict past is discovered he is shunned by the town's respectable citizens - until one night he rescues Esther and her employer from robbers ... Social questioning of the possibility of convict reformation, love etc.

Welsh legend of Gitto Bach, stolen away by the fairies, and of others who had seen them dance. As narrated by Shone Thomos Shone Rhytherch. (PB)

A chance traveller in stranded in Port Albert for three days and describes the rustic monotony of the township and its inhabitants through his experiences there. (PB)

The raptures of first love and their collapse. (PB)

A sailor down on his luck is hired by a light-house keeper as his assistant. A ghost is at the bottom of the keeper's secrecy and fears - a murdered wife ... (PB)

The captain and first-mate of a schooner sunk between a South American port and New York duel on the surviving raft (a large one!) for the safety of the ship's owner, his wife and their beautiful daughter. High romance bordering on the highly unlikely. (PB)

A tearless woman discourses on the uses and advantages of tears in women - as an expression of feeling, and a safety valve comparable to a man's smoking. (PB)

Scenes in a small town visited by Miss Nettire, spinster, and an Angel show Miss Nettire that the neighbours she judged so hardly are more Christian than she ... Moral tale. (PB)

A flood invades the house of a proud Victorian squatter and prompts him to allow his grand-daughter to marry their rescuer, the son of an ex-convict. Set on a country station. (PB)