Category: Short Stories
Bill Hardwick was as fine a specimen of an Australian as you could find in a day's march. Active as a cat and strong withal, he was mostly described as 'a real good all-round chap, that you couldn't put wrong at any kind of work that a man could be asked to do.'
MR. POLYBLOCK (_discovered walking up and down the library_). Well, I don't know as ever I spent a more miserable month. Dulcie don't take no interest in the things as used to a...
9. CHAPTER IXThe Court was not very full. The 'fellow-workers' to whom Stoate so often referred had made up their minds about him. Open warfare, rioting, plunder, even arson or bloodshed, in...
7. CHAPTER VIIThe inland town of Wagga Wagga, in New South Wales, historically celebrated as the dwelling-place of the Tichborne Claimant, where that lapsed scion of the aristocracy followed...
1. CHAPTER IBill Hardwick was as fine a specimen of an Australian as you could find in a day's march. Active as a cat and strong withal, he was mostly described as 'a real good all-round ch...
4. CHAPTER IVSome explanation of the Great Australian Strike of 1890, which lasted in more or less virulence and intensity until 1895, producing widespread damage and ruinous loss, may not h...
2. CHAPTER IIThe sun-rays were slowly irradiating 'the level waste, the rounded grey' which accurately described the landscape, in the lower Riverina, which our travellers had reached after...
8. CHAPTER VIII'Call Cyrus Cable!' for the defence. As the long-legged, bronzed Sydney-sider lounged up to the witness-box, Bill's face, which had assumed a more hopeful expression, became dis...
3. CHAPTER IIIThis was a bombshell with a vengeance. The anarchist, who threw it metaphorically, would have had no scruples—except those of personal apprehension—in casting a dynamite duplica...
5. CHAPTER VOne of the methods which the Pastoralists were compelled to use to defeat the attempted domination of the Shearers' Union was to import free labour: men who were contented to wo...
6. CHAPTER VIAfter the burning of the _Dundonald_, a score of the rioters had been arrested and imprisoned. But owing to the confusion of the _mêlée_ and the prompt dispersion of the Unionis...
11. ACT IIEGREMONT. And so I'm farming in Australia. A thing I've longed for all my days. Such a free, independent, pleasant life. No one to bother you; no one to interfere with you. Such...
13. ACT IVMR. P. (_walks up and down_). Well, I feel regularly stumped and dried out. Haven't felt so bad since the '68 drought. I don't know what's comin' over the country. This young Co...
12. ACT IIIMR. EGREMONT (_discovered nailing up slabs, in order to complete dwelling_). Well, this is a most enjoyable life; that is, it will be enjoyable when I have completed my cottage...
10. ACT IHON. RUFUS. Sheep right; lambs too; shearing all to the good; why, what _can_ be wrong? (_Walks up and down._) Must be them infernal, underminding free selectors. Rot 'em! if th...