In Bad Company and Other Stories (1901) is a collection of short stories and prose essays by Australian author Rolf Boldrewood. It was released in hardback by Macmillan in 1901 as number 423 in Macmillan's Colonial Library Series.
Overview
In Bad Company and Other Stories (1901) is a collection of short stories and prose essays by Australian author Rolf Boldrewood. It was released in hardback by Macmillan in 1901 as number 423 in Macmillan's Colonial Library Series.
The collection contains thirty-five stories, which are mostly published here for the first time, and six non-fiction essays, some of which are autobiographical.
Contents
"In Bad Company"
"Morgan the Bushranger"
"How I Became a Butcher"
"Moonlighting on the Macquarie"
"An Australian Roughriding Contest"
"The Mailman's Yarn : An Ower True Tale"
"Dear Dermot"
"The Story of an Old Log-Book"
"A Kangaroo Shoot"
"Five Men's Lives For One Horse"
"Reedy Lake Station"
"A Forgotten Tragedy"
"The Horse You Don't See Now"
"How I Began to Write"
"A Mountain Forest"
"The Free Selector : A Comedietta"
"Free Hospitality"
"Lapsed Gentlefolk"
"Shearing in the Riverina, New South Wales"
"Ancient Sydney"
"After Long Years"
"In the Droving Days"
"The Australian Native-Born Type"
"My School Days"
"Sydney, Fifty Years Ago"
"Old Time Thoroughbreds"
"The First Port Fairy Hunt"
"Bendemeer"
"Sport in Australia"
"Old Stock-Riders"
"Mount Macedon"
"Walks Abroad"
"From Tumut to Tumberumba"
"In the Throes of a Drought"
"A Spring Sketch"
"New Years Day 1886"
"A Dry Time"
"In the Bloom of the Year"
"Fallen Among Thieves"
"A Transformation Scene"
"In Bushranging Days"
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