CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
PAGE
A.D. 1840[1]
CHAPTER II
The Far West[10]
CHAPTER III
The Death of Violet[23]
CHAPTER IV
Dunmore[33]
CHAPTER V
Squattlesea Mere[41]
CHAPTER VI
The Eumeralla War[51]
CHAPTER VII
The Children of the Rocks[63]
CHAPTER VIII
The Native Police[74]
CHAPTER IX
Kilfera[87]
CHAPTER X
Old Port Fairy[98]
CHAPTER XI
Portland Bay[106]
CHAPTER XII
Grasmere[121]
CHAPTER XIII
Superior Fattening Country[132]
CHAPTER XIV
Burchett of "The Gums"[142]
CHAPTER XV
Work and Play[151]
CHAPTER XVI
The Romance of a Freehold[160]
CHAPTER XVII
Le Chevalier Bayard[170]
CHAPTER XVIII
The Christening of Heidelberg[179]
CHAPTER XIX
The Woodlands Steeplechase[187]
CHAPTER XX
Yering[200]
CHAPTER XXI
Tales of a "Traveller"[212]
CHAPTER XXII
Yambuk[222]
POEMS
Ballaarat in 1851[237]
The Death of Welford[242]
Sunset in the South[244]
Balaclava[246]
The Bushman's Lullaby[249]
Morning[252]
Wanted[253]
Perdita[255]
"Priez pour Elle"[257]