Prentice’s Dilemma and a Burrtown Moral Test
A scattered narrative follows the preacher Prentice in Burrtown torn between remaining with his parish or pursuing a romance with Jessie McGreggor. He schemes to win her through a dramatic Sunday sermon, drafting a sham doctrinal charge against “Popery” to appease McGreggor while courting danger in the parish’s conservative gaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie
Ing
Bracken
Mr. Prentice
Rentic
Pardiscon
Sap
Harmonius
Sven
Trentice
Burrtown
McGreggor
Prentice
Jessia
MacGreggor
Aloe
Jessiel
Sie
MacGregear
Paley
Knox
Breitinger
Frankce
Lady Horse Tamer and the Fatal Bond at Burrtown
Nora Rarey arrives at Bur stock Station to tame the wild Vicious the stallion. She wins his trust with sugar and calm talk then helps save her uncle by riding the horse to town for a doctor. Nora and Jackaroo Darcy wed, while preacher Prentice battles temptation and faces his fall in a somber sermon.
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Sac
Nora Rarey
Globe
Hammpestire
Rome
Burstock
Borstock
Carey
Nora
Run
Soul
Bumn
Spallose Geld
Joe West
Jovel
Jackeron
Wara
Phere
Tord Darcy
Christmas Excursion Mishap in NSW Rail Run
Jobkins, traveling from Goulburn to Bathurst for Christmas, endures a long cross country rail trip under the ill fated Jackson regime. He endures sardine carriage conditions at Blayney and a bitterly cold platform before boarding the main western mail to Bathurst on Christmas morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jobkins
Goulborn
Bathurst
New South Wales
Jackson
Outlanch
England
Goulburn
Everbody
Iron Harden
Jayne
Jobbing
Wnile
Blayney
Folkina
Harden
Wayney
Sydney
Jobing
Orient Esmers
Tommy's First Adventure in Woolloomooloo Streets
In Woolloomooloo, Tommy Thom plays marbles while his chaotic family juggles holidays and petty crime. Ginger Nut a.k.a. Bill Pinchem, Kidney Push captain, disrupts the scene, stealing from Tommy and clashing with the law. Tommy’s mother hides the loot, father profits from deception, and Ginger Nut faces consequence, culminating in the Kidney Push aftermath and a seaside chapel morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy Thom
Err
Wanal
Percy
Corporation
Woolloomoolon
Tommy
Bil Pinchem
Ginger Nut
Bill
Strove Corners
Ofice
Tomas Ginning
Elrelcher
Ginger
Thom
Mrs. Thorn
Father Thom
Chapel
Dinger
Ginger Nu
Litthe Tomny Thom
A Christmas on the HawksBury Tale of charity and flood rescue
In Australia during Christmas a parson and the hard hearted McCurmudgeon clash over aid to the poor. A Hawkesbury flood redeems them as the Parson rescues the family from rising waters and argues that Christmas sympathy should apply to everyone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCurmudgeon
Sackville Beach
McCormudgeon
Australia
Zanzibar
Hawkesbury
Also Mentioned on This Page
Peter
Mary Leith
Lady Horse Tamer
Herbert Edwards
McGreegar
Jim
Ole Ted
Worden
Nis
Christ
Old
McGregor
Vieions
George Black
HawksBury
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