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Three Elephant Power and Other Stories By A. B. Paterson,
Author of The Man from Snowy River, Rio Grande, Saltbush Bill, J.P., An
Outback Marriage, Etc.
These stories appeared originally in several Australian
journals.
"Them things," said Alfred the chauffeur, tapping the speed indicator with his fingers, "them things are all right for the police. But, Lord, you can fix 'em up if you want to. Did you ever hear about Henery, that used to drive for old John Bull -- about Henery and the elephant?" Read moreNo tram ever goes to Randwick races without him; he is always fat, hairy, and assertive; he is generally one of a party, and takes the centre of the stage all the time collects and hands over the fares, adjusts the change, chaffs the conductor, crushes the thin, apologetic stranger.... Read moreThe firm of Sloper and Dodge, publishers and printers, was in great distress. These two enterprising individuals had worked up an enormous business in time-payment books, which they sold all over Australia by means of canvassers.... Read morePeople have got the impression that the merino is a gentle, bleating animal that gets its living without trouble to anybody, and comes up every year to be shorn with a pleased smile upon its amiable face..... Read moreThe typical Australian bullock -- long-horned, sullen-eyed, stupid, and vindictive -- is bred away out in Queensland, on remote stations in the Never Never land, where men live on damper and beef... Read moreBuckalong was a big freehold of some 80,000 acres, belonging to an absentee syndicate, and therefore run in most niggardly style. There was a manager on 200 pounds a year, Sandy M'Gregor... Read moreThe sporting men of Mulligan's were an exceedingly knowing lot; in fact, they had obtained the name amongst their neighbours of being a little bit too knowing. They had taken down the adjoining town in a variety of ways.... Read moreThe first step in amateur gardening is to sit down and consider what good you are going to get by it. If you are only a tenant by the month, as most people are, it is obviously not of much use for you to plant a fruit orchard or an avenue of oak trees..... Read moreTravellers approaching a bush township are sure to find some distance from the town a lonely public-house waiting by the roadside to give them welcome.... Read moreThe circus was having its afternoon siesta. Overhead the towering canvas tent spread like a giant mushroom on a network of stalks.... Read more |
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