# The Queen Versus Billy, and Other Stories

Author: Osbourne, Lloyd, 1868-1947

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62875

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Queen+Versus+Billy%2C+and+Other+Stories+Osbourne&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It was the _Sandfly_, Captain Toombs, that brought the news to Sydney and intercepted her Majesty’s third-class cruiser _Stingaree_, as she lay in Man-of-War Cove, with her boats hoisted in and a deck-load of coal as high as her bulwarks, on the eve of a long trip into the western Pacific. It was the same old story--another white man sent to his last account in the inhospitable Solomons, where if the climate does not kill you the black man soon will: “Thomas Hysslop Biggar, commonly known as ‘Captain Tom’; aged forty-six; British subject; occupation, trader in coprah; place of residence, Sunflower Bay, island of Guadalcanar; murdered by the natives in September, 1888, between the 7th and...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-versus-billy-and-other-stories-62875/chapters/19/index.md)