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Title: Australia Revenged

Author: Boomerang

Release Date: July 4, 2009 [EBook #29315]

Language: English

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AUSTRALIA REVENGED

BY
"BOOMERANG"

LONDON:
REMINGTON AND COMPANY, LIMITED
15, KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN
AND SYDNEY
1894

_All Rights Reserved_

PREFACE.

Each character in this work is a type. The Australian characters may be
met with every day in the Colonies. Nor are Villiers Wyckliffe and the
Detlij Club distorted figments of the imagination; and the broken heart
is a symbol of the aims of the one, and the object of the others,
softened down so that the cheek of modesty may be spared a blush.

In those parts of the work where Colonial Governors are mentioned, they
appear in a less heroic light than that in which one ordinarily sees
them in print. Therefore for the further enlightenment of the reader, an
appendix has been added, in which the standpoint wherefrom Young
Australia views them is fully explained.

"Boomerang" is the joint _nom-de-plume_ of a Young Australian and his
collaborator.

B.

London, October, 1894.

CONTENTS.

I THE DETLIJ CLUB 1
II CONFIDENCES 14
III THE MIA-MIA 26
IV THE BALL 38
V THE OATH 48
VI REVENGE 63
VII HAL 79
VIII ADELAIDE 94
IX MELBOURNE 114
X CABBIES