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  • NEVERMORE
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    NEVERMORE
    ROLF BOLDREWOOD
    Excerpt: "'Steam to Australia.—For Melbourne and the Goldfields. The clipper ship, Red Jacket, three thousand tons register, Forbes, Commander, will have quick dispatch. Apply to Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.' The die was cast. He saw himself speeding over the ocean on his way to the wild and wondrous land of gold, absolutely uncontrolled henceforth and free as air to follow h...

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  • THE CROOKED STICK, OR, POLLIE'S PROBATION
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    THE CROOKED STICK, OR, POLLIE'S PROBATION
    ROLF BOLDREWOOD
    Excerpt: "The scene, a limitless stretch of plain—its wearisome monotony feebly broken by belts of timber or an infrequent pine-ridge. The earth adust. A hopeless, steel-blue sky. The atmosphere stagnated, breezeless. The forest tribes all dumb. The Wannonbah mail-coach toiling over the furrows of a sandhill, walled in by a pine thicket." ...

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  • BABES IN THE BUSH
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    BABES IN THE BUSH
    ROLF BOLDREWOOD
    Excerpt: "‘What letter are you holding in your hand all this time, my dear?’ said Captain Howard Effingham to his wife during a certain family council. ‘Really, I had almost forgotten it. A foreign postmark—I suppose it is from your friend Mr. Sternworth, in Australia or New Zealand.’ ‘Sternworth lives in New South Wales, not New Zealand,’ returned he rather testily. ‘I have to...

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  • THE LAST CHANCE
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    THE LAST CHANCE
    ROLF BOLDREWOOD
    Excerpt: "As a Commissioner of Goldfields, and Police Magistrate, in New South Wales, it is hardly necessary to say that Arnold Banneret’s pay was not conspicuously in advance of the necessaries of life. Necessaries which may be thus catalogued: a couple of decent ride-and-drive horses, a light, much-enduring buggy, clothes and books, boots and shoes, bread and butter, for half...

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  • PLAIN LIVING A BUSH IDYLL
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    PLAIN LIVING A BUSH IDYLL
    ROLF BOLDREWOOD
    Excerpt: "Mr. Stamford was riding slowly, wearily homeward in the late autumnal twilight along the dusty track which led to the Windāhgil station. The life of a pastoral tenant of the Crown in Australia is, for the most part, free, pleasant, and devoid of the cares which assail so mordantly the heart of modern man in cities. But striking exceptions to this rule are furnished pe...

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  • THE SQUATTER'S DREAM, A STORY OF AUSTRALIEN LIFE
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    THE SQUATTER'S DREAM, A STORY OF AUSTRALIEN LIFE
    ROLF BOLDREWOOD
    Excerpt: "Jack Redgrave was a jolly, well-to-do young squatter, who, in the year 185—, had a very fair cattle station in one of the Australian colonies, upon which he lived in much comfort and reasonable possession of the minor luxuries of life. He had, in bush parlance, “taken it up” himself, when hardly more than a lad, had faced bad seasons, blacks, bush-fires, bushrangers, ...

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  • ROBBERY UNDER ARMS
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    ROBBERY UNDER ARMS
    ROLF BOLDREWOOD
    Robbery Under Arms is a bushranger novel by Thomas Alexander Browne, published under his pseudonym Rolf Boldrewood. It is considered a classic of Australian colonial literature, along with Marcus Clarke's convict novel For the Term of his Natural Life (1876), and has inspired numerous adaptations in film, television and theatre. Writing in the first person, the narrator Dick Ma...

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  • A MODERN BUCCANEER
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    A MODERN BUCCANEER
    ROLF BOLDREWOOD
    Excerpt: "Born near Sydney harbour, nursery of the seamen of the South, I could swim almost as soon as I could walk, and sail a boat at an age when most children are forbidden to go near the water. We came of a salt-water stock. My father had been a sea-captain for the greater part of his life, after a youth spent in every kind of craft, from a cutter to a man-of-war. No part o...

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    "WAR TO THE KNIFE", OR, TANGATA MAORI
    ROLF BOLDREWOOD
    Excerpt: "Massinger Court in Herefordshire was a grand old Tudor mansion, the brown sandstone walls and tiled roofs of which had been a source of pride to the inhabitants of the county for untold generations. Standing in a fair estate of ten thousand acres, three roods, and twenty-eight perches (to be accurate), with a nominal rental of somewhat over fifteen thousand a year, it...

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