CONTENTS

	CHAPTER	PAGE

ONE.	[CLAY'S.]	[1]
TWO.	[AT CLAY'S.]	[9]
THREE.	[BECOMING ACQUAINTED WITH GRANDMA CLAY.]	[29]
FOUR.	[DAWN'S AMBITION.]	[46]
FIVE.	[MISS FLIPP'S UNCLE.]	[52]
SIX.	[GRANDMA CLAY'S LOVE-STORY.]	[58]
SEVEN.	[THE LITTLE TOWN OF NOONOON.]	[73]
EIGHT.	[GRANDMA TURNS NURSE.]	[86]
NINE.	[THE KNIGHT HAS A STOLEN VIEW OF THE LADY.]	[92]
TEN.	[PROVINCIAL POLITICS AND SEMI-SUBURBAN DENTISTS.]	[100]
ELEVEN.	[ANDREW DISGRACES HIS "RARIN'."]	[110]
TWELVE.	[SOME SIDE-PLAY.]	[117]
THIRTEEN.	[VARIOUS EVENTS.]	[131]
FOURTEEN.	[THE PASSING OF THE TRAINS.]	[152]
FIFTEEN.	[ALAS! MISS FLIPP!]	[173]
SIXTEEN.	[ADVANCE, AUSTRALIA!]	[179]
SEVENTEEN.	[MRS BRAY AND CARRY COME TO ISSUES.]	[196]
EIGHTEEN.	[THE FOUNDATION OF THE POULTRY INDUSTRY.]	[206]
NINETEEN.	[AN OPPORTUNELY INOPPORTUNE DOUCHE.]	[226]
TWENTY.	["ALAS! HOW EASILY THINGS GO WRONG!"]	[243]
TWENTY-ONE.	[THINGS GO MORE WRONG.]	[261]
TWENTY-TWO.	["O SPIRIT, AND THE NINE ANGELS WHO WATCH US ..."]	[270]
TWENTY-THREE.	[UNIVERSAL ADULT SUFFRAGE.]	[277]
TWENTY-FOUR.	[LITTLE ODDS AND ENDS OF LIFE.]	[295]
TWENTY-FIVE.	["LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM."]	[304]
TWENTY-SIX.	["OFF WITH THE OLD."]	[310]
TWENTY-SEVEN.	["ONE MIGHT THINK BETTER OF MARRIAGE IF ONE'S MARRIED FRIENDS ..."]	[315]
TWENTY-EIGHT.	[LET THERE BE LOVE.]	[322]
TWENTY-NINE.	["THE SAVAGE SELLS OR EXCHANGES HIS DAUGHTER, BUT IN ..."]	[333]
THIRTY.	[FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS CONSULT 'THE NOONOON ADVERTISER' OF THAT DATE.]	[340]
	[L'ENVOI.]	[345]

GLOSSARY OF COLLOQUIALISMS AND
SLANG TERMS.

AUSTRALIAN.	AMERICAN EQUIVALENTS.	ENGLISH INTERPRETATION.

Billy	A tin pail	A camp-kettle.
Blokes	Guys	Chaps—fellows.
Bosker	Dandy or "dandy fine"	Something meeting with unqualified approval.
Galoot	A rube	A yokel—a heavy country fellow.
Larrikin	A hoodlum.
Moke	A common knockabout horse.
Narked	Sore	Vexed—to have lost the temper.
Gin	Squaw	An aboriginal woman.
Quod	Jail.
Sollicker	Somewhat equivalent to "corker"	Something excessive.
Toff	A "sport" or "swell guy"	A well-dressed individual—sometimes of the upper ten.
Two "bob"	Fifty cents	Two shillings.
To graft	To "dig in"	To work hard and steadily.
To scoot	To vamoose or skidoo	To leave hastily and unceremoniously.
To smoodge	To be a "sucker"	To curry favour at the expense of independence.
"Gives me the pip"	"Makes me tired"	Bores.
"On a string"	}	Trifling with him.
"Pulling his leg"	}
Kookaburra	A giant kingfisher with grey plumage and a merry, mocking, inconceivably human laugh—a killer of snakes, and a great favourite with Australians.