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G. Firth Scott. Colonial Born: A Tale of the Queensland bush
Colonial Born: A Tale of the Queensland bush
Table of Contents
COLONIAL BORN
CHAPTER I
THE ROMANCE OF TAYLOR'S FLAT
CHAPTER II
TWENTY YEARS AFTER
CHAPTER III
THE BELLE OF BIRRALONG
CHAPTER IV
THE ROUT OF BOULDER CREEK
CHAPTER V
THE SWAY OF GOLD
CHAPTER VI
THE LADY OF BARELLAN
CHAPTER VII
THE EVOLUTION OF SLAUGHTER
CHAPTER VIII
SKINNING THE WILD CAT
CHAPTER IX
CHORDS AND DISCORDS
CHAPTER X
THE RACE FOR GOLD
CHAPTER XI
BILLIARDS MADE EASY
CHAPTER XII
RIVAL ISSUES
CHAPTER XIII
TONY VISITS THE FLAT
CHAPTER XIV
THE FINDING OF PETERS'S REEF
CHAPTER XV
BLACK AND WHITE
CHAPTER XVI
TWO SIDES OF A STORY
CHAPTER XVII
A BUSHMAN'S BANKER
CHAPTER XVIII
A TANGLED SKEIN
CHAPTER XIX
STRANDS IN THE COIL
CHAPTER XX
THE LAST LOOP
THE END
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G. Firth Scott
Published by Good Press, 2019
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There were occasions—such as when a Queensland horse won the Melbourne Cup, or when a drought broke up, or produce values took a leap, or the resident constable was transferred—when the township, speaking figuratively, migrated from one end of the town to the other, and Marmot's was deserted for the good of the Rest. There was a breezy freshness in the neighbourhood then, a wave of primitive goodfellowship, as it were, with a period of hazy indistinctness separating it from the time when the rising sun brought with it a succeeding wave of virtuous antagonism and a distressing dryness of the throat.
But such occasions were rare—too rare, some thought—and, as a general thing, Birralong had a reputation for sobriety, and maintained it with dignity.
