The Best Australian Bush Stories by Haynes, Jim -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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COVER PAGE ABOUT THE AUTHOR TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT PAGE DEDICATION CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION PART 1: DELIGHTS OF THE BUSH

‘MALLEE MORNING’ THE KILLER KOALA THE DELIGHTS OF THE BUSH THE TALLAGANDRA TURKEY THE HOTEL IN MARYBOROUGH DOWN AMONG THE WOMBATS THE DRUNKEN KANGAROO ‘THE DROVER’S LAMENT’

PART 2: BUSH JUSTICE

‘THE SIX-STITCHER’ BUSH JUSTICE THE IRONBARK CHIP HERE COMES THE BRIDE HIS BAD LUCK SHOOTING STARS MARKS’S CUTTER ‘A WALGETT EPISODE’

PART 3: DAVE IN LOVE

‘TO MANY LADIES’ THE WRONG TURNING SPICER’S COURTSHIP DAVE IN LOVE POOR JOE STRAWBERRY: A LOVE STORY A BOX OF DEAD ROSES DRIFTED BACK ‘THE FREE-SELECTOR’S DAUGHTER’

PART 4: THERE’S A PATRON SAINT OF DRUNKS

‘DRUNKS’ SNAKES AND ALCOHOL THERE’S A PATRON SAINT OF DRUNKS THE EVENIN’ BEFORE LEAVIN’ HOME THE SIX O’CLOCK SWELLS WHERE THE COOLER BARS GROW ONE HUNDRED STUBBIES ‘THE ALCOHOLICS’ CREED’

PART 5: TO THE CITY

‘SIMPLE SISTER GOES TO SYDNEY’ THE WAYBACKS GO TO SYDNEY A ZACK TO CENTRAL THE DOWNFALL OF MULLIGAN’S TO THE CITY MINER’S HOLIDAY ‘WESTWARD HO!’

PART 6: BENEFIT OF CLERGY

‘GOD AND POETS’ I USED TO READ THE COMICS FIRST THE REIGN OF EUGENE HAM BENEFIT OF CLERGY A SABBATH MORN AT WADDY BILL’S RELIGION EVERYONE LIKED FATHER CONNOLLY FIRST CONFESSION THE PARSON’S BLACKBOY ‘THE PARSON AND THE PRELATE’

PART 7: THE CONQUERING BUSH

‘SPINIFEX’ THE FIRST BUSH FIRE THE DROVER’S WIFE MALLEE AN ERROR IN ADMINISTRATION THE FEUD THE CONQUERING BUSH RATS ‘THE WIND THAT BURIES THE DEAD’

PART 8: THE NIGHT WE WATCHED FOR WALLABIES

‘PICKING LEMONS’ THE NIGHT WE WATCHED FOR WALLABIES CRUTCHING THE RAMS CONVERSATION IN A PANTRY POSSUM GULLY OLD HEINRICH AND THE LAMBING EWE ‘SUCCESS’

PART 9: THE LOST SOULS’ HOTEL

‘AFTER MANY YEARS’ ‘BRING YOUR FIDDLE, JOE’ GOING BLIND A LETTER FROM COLLEEN THE HAGNEY AFFAIR THE LOST SOULS’ HOTEL ‘QUESTION NOT’