Tom Gerrard

of her mother. Fraser, who to all appearance was only the ordinary type of working miner common to all Australasian gold-fields, was in reality a highly-educated man, who had been not only

warm friends, disappeared with his little daughter from Sydney altogether. A year or so later one of these friends came across him riding down the main street of the mining t

ly, as he pulled up his horse, and dismounted; "have you t

Judge Blakeney-Crown-Prosecu

ering that way. So far I have had no brilliant success, bu

ncipal of a ladies' school. He had finally settled at Fraser's Gully, where he had discovered a large, but not rich reef, and for the past five years he and some half a dozen miners had worked it, sometimes doing very well, at others their labour yielding them

d not stand it for even a month. I am very, very ha

n-keeping house for me, milking and dairy w

Mrs Tallis has gone, and I feel more important than ever. B

a happy one. To her father's miners, "Miss Kate" was a fairy goddess, and consternation reigned among them when one day a passing Je

nt was made, and little "Cockney Smith" the youngest man of the party, who was just about to dri

t think he was after Miss Kate. Well, all I can say is,"-he raised his glass-"that suthi

full of wood and coal merchants. And it doesn't become you to call the parson a Holy Joe. Maybe you've forgottten that when you busted your last cheq

," was the unan

tails that you was screechin' about," went on Sam, relentlessly. "If she's going to hitch up with the parson it can't be helped. Anyways

manual

ck Police officer being engaged?" said the ha

fire insurance people?" angrily retorted Young, who was wroth at th

ted the hawker. "It vas anoth

do?" asked

t about fifty of them round glass bottles full of a sort of stuff called fire exstinker-bottles that you can hang up on a nail with a bit of string, or put on shelv

uid"

is-was dead set on getting that two thousand quid for his stock, which was only worth

lied the hawker, "and he vasn

forward ressylutions at the Committee meetings for a better water supply, and all that sort of thing, and he gave a five pound note to the driver o

answered the h

s store on no account whatever, and wanted all the Fire Brigade men and other public serv

the store to help hi

as never much interested in read

nipper, he slips away to the Fire Brigade station and says to the Superintendent, 'Give me ten bob an' I'll tell you a secret about Ikey Benjamin and his fire exstinkers.' The Super gave him the money, and the boy tells the yarn, and about two o'clock i

I must be getting along to Boorala," and hurriedly gat

tes a solemn wink

Mr Aulain, there's some truth in it. The Inspector is dead sweet on her, I know, but whether she cares for him is another matter. Anyway

rard had finished their refreshing bathe in the crystal waters of the creek, and returned to the house, they found Kate had suppe

What a nuisance is a woman's hair, isn't it, Mr Gerrard? Now, Mr Forde, why don't you say it is her glory? Don't be shocked at me, Mr Gerrard, but t

d after a hasty "wash down" in a tub placed at the back of the ho

w that in the winter time, when the dingoes{*} were hungry they would ofte

stralian

nd punched her father on his mighty chest.

de the house, and Kate was reading Aulain's letter in her room, Gerrard

safely married to her. And I wish that there were two more like you, Miss Kate-one for me