CONTENTS

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In Bad Company[1]
Morgan the Bushranger[135]
How I became a Butcher[146]
Moonlighting on the Macquarie[165]
An Australian Roughriding Contest[174]
The Mailman's Yarn[182]
Dear Dermot[190]
The Story of an Old Log-Book[199]
A Kangaroo Shoot[208]
Five Men's Lives for One Horse[214]
Reedy Lake Station[220]
A Forgotten Tragedy[234]
The Horse you don't see Now[241]
How I began to Write[249]
A Mountain Forest[255]
The Free Selector—A Comedietta[261]
Bush Hospitality[282]
Lapsed Gentlefolk[288]
Shearing in Riverina, New South Wales[296]
Ancient Sydney[321]
After Long Years[335]
In the Droving Days[341]
The Australian Native-born Type[351]
My School Days[360]
Sydney Fifty Years Ago[369]
Old Time Thoroughbreds[377]
The First Port Fairy Hunt[387]
Bendemeer[398]
Sport in Australia[407]
Old Stock-riders[415]
Mount Macedon[422]
Walks Abroad[430]
From Tumut to Tumberumba[437]
In the Throes of a Drought[444]
A Spring Sketch[449]
New Year's Day 1886[455]
A Dry Time[461]
Australian Collies[466]
In the Bloom of the Year[474]
Fallen among Thieves[481]
A Transformation Scene[491]
In Bushranging Days[501]