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In Bad Company, and other stories

Chapter 59: TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
By Rolf Boldrewood
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A collection of short stories and sketches set in colonial rural Australia, presenting episodes of bush life, shearing, droving, and encounters with bushrangers alongside reminiscences of town and sporting life. Vignettes range from domestic struggles and farming enterprise to tales of stockmen, rough-riding contests, droughts and isolated tragedies, often mixing practical detail with wry observation. Several pieces adopt first-person reminiscence or yarn-like narration, balancing adventure and pastoral routine while examining community ties, labour, and shifting social circumstances on the frontier.

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  • Seekers after God
  • Eternal Hope
  • The Fall of Man
  • Witness of History to Christ
  • Silence and Voices of God
  • In the Days of thy Youth
  • Saintly Workers
  • Ephphatha
  • Mercy and Judgment
  • Sermons in America
By ARCHIBALD FORBES
  • Barracks, Bivouacs, and Battles
  • Souvenirs of Some Continents
By W. WARDE FOWLER
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By THOMAS HARDY
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  • Two on a Tower
  • The Return of the Native
  • The Woodlanders
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  • Life's Little Ironies
  • A Group of Noble Dames
  • Under the Greenwood Tree
  • The Well Beloved
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By BRET HARTE
  • Cressy: A Novel
  • A First Family of Tasajara
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By THOMAS HUGHES
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By HENRY JAMES
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By ANNIE KEARY
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  • Castle Daly
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  • A Doubting Heart
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By CHARLES KINGSLEY
  • Westward Ho!
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  • Yeast
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  • Two Years Ago
  • Hereward the Wake
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  • The Heroes
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  • My Lady Nobody
  • God's Fool
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  • Buckler
  • The Philanderers
  • Miranda of the Balcony
By F. D. MAURICE
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  •      "           "         II.
  •      "           "        III.
  •      "           "         IV.
  •      "           "          V.
  •      "           "         VI.
  • Sermons Preached in Country Churches.
  • Christmas Day
  • Theological Essays
  • Prophets and Kings
  • Patriarchs and Lawgivers
  • Gospel of Kingdom of Heaven
  • Gospel of St. John
  • Epistles of St. John
  • Friendship of Books
  • Prayer Book and Lord's Prayer
  • Doctrine of Sacrifice
  • Acts of the Apostles
By D. CHRISTIE MURRAY
  • Aunt Rachel
  • Schwartz
  • The Weaker Vessel
  • John Vale's Guardian
By W. E. NORRIS
  • Thirlby Hall
  • Bachelor's Blunder
By Mrs. OLIPHANT
  • Neighbours on the Green
  • Joyce
  • Kirsteen
  • A Beleaguered City
  • Hester
  • He that Will Not when He May
  • The Railway Man
  • Marriage of Elinor
  • Sir Tom
  • The Heir-Presumptive, etc.
  • A Country Gentleman
  • A Son of the Soil
  • The Second Son
  • The Wizard's Son
  • The Curate in Charge
  • Lady William
  • Young Musgrave
By Mrs. PARR
  • Dorothy Fox
  • Adam and Eve
  • Loyalty George
  • Robin
By W. CLARK RUSSELL
  • Marooned
  • A Strange Elopement
By Sir WALTER SCOTT
The Large-type Illustrated Border Edition of The Waverley Novels
In 24 volumes
  • Waverley
  • Guy Mannering
  • The Antiquary
  • Rob Roy
  • Old Mortality
  • The Heart of Midlothian
  • A Legend of Montrose, and the Black Dwarf
  • The Bride of Lammermoor
  • Ivanhoe
  • The Abbot
  • The Monastery
  • Kenilworth
  • The Pirate
  • The Fortunes of Nigel
  • Peveril of the Peak
  • Quentin Durward
  • St. Ronan's Well
  • Redgauntlet
  • The Betrothed, and The Talisman
  • Woodstock
  • The Fair Maid of Perth
  • Anne of Geierstein
  • Count Robert of Paris, and The Surgeon's Daughter
  • Castle Dangerous, Chronicles of the Canongate, etc.
By J. H. SHORTHOUSE
  • John Inglesant
  • Sir Percival
  • Little Schoolmaster Mark
  • The Countess Eve
  • A Teacher of the Violin
  • Blanche, Lady Falaise
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Reprints of the First Editions, with all the Original Illustrations,
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  • Lovel the Widower, and other Stories
  • Lectures on the English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century, The Four Georges, Charity and Humour, etc.
  • Sketches and Travels in London, Mrs. Brown's Letters to a Young Man about Town, The Proser
  • Ballads and Verses, Miscellaneous Contributions to Punch
Other Volumes to follow
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  • Fickle Fortune
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  • Later Leaves
  • Round London
By CHARLOTTE M. YONGE
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  • Heartsease
  • Hopes and Fears
  • Dynevor Terrace
  • The Daisy Chain
  • The Trial
  • Pillars of the House. Vol. I.
  •     "          "          II.
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  • My Young Alcides
  • The Caged Lion
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  • The Chaplet of Pearls
  • Lady Hester, and Danvers Papers
  • Magnum Bonum
  • Love and Life
  • Unknown to History
  • Stray Pearls
  • The Armourer's 'Prentices
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  • Nuttie's Father
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  • Chantry House
  • A Modern Telemachus
  • Bywords
  • Beechcroft at Rockstone
  • More Bywords
  • A Reputed Changeling
  • The Little Duke
  • The Lances of Lynwood
  • The Prince and the Page
  • Two Penniless Princesses
  • That Stick
  • An Old Woman's Outlook
  • Grisly Grisell
  • The Release
  • The Long Vacation
  • Ben Beriah
  • Henrietta's Wish
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  • Flitters, Tatters, and the Counsellor
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  • Tim
  • Memories of Father Healy
  • CUTCLIFFE HYNE.—The "Paradise" Coal-Boat
  • Canon ATKINSON.—The Last of the Giant Killers
  • R. H. BARHAM.—The Ingoldsby Legends
  • HAWLEY SMART.—Breezie Langton
  • ANTHONY TROLLOPE.—The Three Clerks
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  • RICHARD JEFFERIES.—The Dewy Morn
  • FRANK BUCKLAND.—Curiosities of Natural History. 4 vols.
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  • D. C. MURRAY and H. HERMAN.—He fell among Thieves
  • LUCAS MALET.—Mrs. Lorimer
  • LANOE FALCONER.—Cecilia de Noël
  • M. M'LENNAN.—MuckleJock, and other Stories
  • Major GAMBIER PARRY.—The Story of Dick
  • S. R. LYSAGHT.—The Marplot
  • Sir H. M. DURAND.—Helen Treveryan
  • MARCHESA THEODOLI.—Under Pressure
  • W. C. RHOADES.—John Trevennick
  • E. C. PRICE—In the Lion's Mouth
  • BLENNERHASSET AND SLEEMAN.—Adventures in Mashonaland
  • W. FORBES-MITCHELL.—Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny
  • Rev. J. GILMORE.—Storm Warriors
  • Lord REDESDALE.—Tales of Old Japan
  • Sir S. BAKER.—True Tales for my Grandsons
  • HENRY KINGSLEY.—Tales of Old Travel
  • W. P. FRITH, R.A.—My Autobiography
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  • CHARLES WHITEHEAD.—Richard Savage
  • F. A. MIGNET.—Mary Queen of Scots
  • F. GUIZOT.—Oliver Cromwell
  • M. R. MITFORD.—Literary Recollections
  • Rev. R. H. D. BARHAM.—Life of R. H. Barham
  • —— Life of Theodore Hook
  • Biographies of Eminent Persons Vol. I.
  •        "          "                II.
  •        "          "               III.
  •        "          "                IV.
  •        "          "                 V.
  • Annual Summaries. Vol. I.
  •    "       "          II.
  • Masson's French Dictionary
  • Shakespeare's Works. Vol. I.
  •      "          "        II.
  •      "          "       III.
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

  1. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors.
  2. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.