Colonial Born: A Tale of the Queensland bush

by G. Firth Scott

"THE TRACK OF MIDNIGHT," "THE ROMANCE OF AUSTRALIAN EXPLORING,"
"AT FRIENDLY POINT," ETC.

WITH SIX ILLUSTRATIONS BY PERCY F. S. SPENCE

LONDON

SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON AND COMPANY

LIMITED

TO

THE ORIGINAL AILLEEN

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
[I.]	The Romance of Taylor's Flat	1
[II.]	Twenty Years after	16
[III.]	The Belle of Birralong	30
[IV.]	The Rout of Boulder Creek	40
[V.]	The Sway of Gold	59
[VI.]	The Lady of Barellan	80
[VII.]	The Evolution of Slaughter	93
[VIII.]	Skinning the Wild Cat	110
[IX.]	Chords and Discords	128
[X.]	The Race for Gold	146
[XI.]	Billiards made easy	161
[XII.]	Rival Issues	180
[XIII.]	Tony visits the Flat	193
[XIV.]	The Finding of Peters's Reef	204
[XV.]	Black and White	219
[XVI.]	Two Sides of a Story	233
[XVII.]	A Bushman's Banker	246
[XVIII.]	A Tangled Skein	260
[XIX.]	Strands in the Coil	274
[XX.]	The Last Loop	293