Stories of New Zealand Life: Including "The Two Detectives. " "The Miser's Plant, " "Rescue of the Stray Lamb, " "Wee Davie, " & C.

[8] pages advertisements + [viii], 84 pages + [12] pages advertisements. Original printed wrappers. 1.5" corner missing from tail of front wrapper. Wrappers brittle and chipped around margins. 1/2" missing at head of paper spine. 1" missing at tail of paper spine. Internally good. Contents: The Two Detectives; The Beer Barrel Frolic; TheOyster Supper; An Adventure on Goat Island; Nineteen Hours on a Common Jury; The New Chum's First Fight; The Champagne Duel The Miser's Plant; The Rescue of the Stray Lamb; Wee Davie. [Reference: Bagnall 1538 - "'Short Stories of early gold-digging times' (Hocken) , but some have a generalised Dunedin and South Canterbury setting. "] "It was sometime in the sixties, when young Dunedinites were full of blood and deviltry, that Charlie McIntosh and Jamie Fraser were slowly winding their way up Rattray streets towards Roslyn, the hill seeming to be much steeper than usual, after a blythe night at the old Empire, with some choice spirits, at billiards and props, washed down with a drap o' the cratur. [.]"; 12mo.…