Shavings & Scrapes from many parts. Jules Joubert

tion>

       Jules Joubert

      Shavings & Scrapes from many parts

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4064066123062

Table of Contents

       EARLY SCRAPES

       I. A STRAY SHOT.

       II. PEEP OF DAY.

       III. CHIPS FROM AN OLD LOG

       IV. FIRST LESSON IN FINANCE.

       V. ROBINSON CRUSOE REALISED.

       VI. MAORILAND.

       EARLY AUSTRALIAN SHAVINGS.

       I. SYDNEY IN 1839.

       II. THE GOLD FEVER.

       III. SOME BUSHRANGERS I HAVE KNOWN.

       III. HOW MONEY USED TO BE MADE.

       NEW CALEDONIA.

       I. TAKING POSSESSION: “TIT FOR TAT.”

       II. HE WHO FIGHTS AND RUNS AWAY.”

       III. ANOTHER NARROW SQUEAK.”

       IV. A SOUTH SEA TRIP.”

       NEW SOUTH WALES.

       I. A FEW OLD IDENTITIES.”

       II. A LAND SPECULATION.”

       III. A HARD KNOCK.”

       IV. HOME, SWEET HOME.”

       V. ANTIPODEAN GRATITUDE.”

       CEYLON.

       I. GRAINS OF SINGALESE SAND.”

       II. THE PARAHERRA.”

       III. “HAMLET” UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

       IV. AN ELEPHANT HUNT.

       V. A MATRIMONIAL “SCRAPE.”

       VI. THE TREE OF LIFE.

       VII. A WATER PARTY IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.

       INDIA.

       I. MADRAS.

       II. THE GANGES.

       III. CALCUTTA.

       IV. THE DENIZENS OF THE JUNGLE.

       V. SANCTIMONIOUS.

       VI. THE CALCUTTA EXHIBITION.

       VII. A TRAMP THROUGH INDIA.

       VIII. BENARES—THE SACRED CITY.

       IX. THROUGH THE CENTRAL PROVINCES.

       X. PRINCELY HOSPITALITY.

       XI. INDIAN SPORTS.

       “HOME, ‘DEAR’ HOME.”

       EPILOGUE.

      EARLY SCRAPES

       Table of Contents

      I.

       A STRAY SHOT.

       Table of Contents

      WHAT is life? A perpetual see-saw with fortune—man at one end, the fickle jade at the other.

      A feather at times turns the balance. In my case, an ounce of lead has disturbed the equilibrium of the fortunes of many lives.

      Descended from men of war, I have become most essentially a man of peace.

      Still,