New Zealand Short Stories - Paperback

NEW ZEALAND SHORT STORIES Selected with an Introduction by D. M. DAVIN -- CONTENTS - INTRODUCTION - ALFRED A. GRACE 1867-1942 The Ngarara . From Tales of a Dying Race 1901 by permission of Chatto and Windus LADY BARKER 1831-191 I Christmas Day in New Zealand . From A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters 1872 by permission of Macmillan and Co. ALFRED A. GRACE 1867-1942 Te Wirias Potatoes . From Tales of a Dying Race 1901 by permission of Chatto and Windus A Member of the Force . From We Four, and the Stories We Told 1880 WILLIAM BAUCKE 1848-1931 A Quaint Friendship . From Where the White Man Treads 1905 by permission of Wilson and Horton, Auckland, New Zealand JOHN A. LEE b. 1891 Mans Inhumanity to Man . From Shining with the Shiner 1944 by permission of the author KATHERINE MANSFIELD 1888-1923 At The Bay . Thevoyage . CONTENTS Her First Ball . 168 From The Garden Party rgzz by permission of The Society of Authors and J. Middleton Murry, O. B. E. B. E. BAUGHAN b. 1870 An Active Family . I77 From Brown Bread from a Colonial Oven rgrz by permission of the author and Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd., Christchurch, New Zealand JAMES COURAGE b. 1905 After the Earthquake . 192 From Landfall, December 1948, by permission of The Caxton Press, Christchurch, New Zealand ALICE F. WEBB b. 1876 The Patriot . . 204 From Miss Peters Special r926 by permission of the author FRANK S. ANTHONY 1891-1925 Winter Feeding the Herd - . 21.3 From Me and Gus 1938 by permission of Mrs. Anthony and the Hawera Star Publishing Co., Hawera, New Zealand FRANK SARGESON b. 1903 Last Adventure . . 223 From A Man and His Wife 1940 by permission of the author and John Lehmann Ltd. DAN DAVIN b. 1913 Saturday Night . . 230 From The GorseBlooms Pale 1947 by permission of the author vi CONTENTS RODERICK FINLAYSON b. 1904 The Totara Tree . From Brown Mans Burden 1938 by perrnission of the author, the Hogarth Press, and the Unicorn Press, Auckland, New Zealand MAURICE DUGGAN b. 1922 Race Day . From the New Zealand Listener, February 1952, by permission of the editor and of the author G. R. GILBERT b. 1917 A Girl with Ambition From Free to Laugh and Dance 1942 by permission of The Caxton Press FRANK SARGESON b. 1903 The Making of a New Zealander . From A Man and His Wife 1940 by permission of the author and John Lehmann Ltd. DOUGLAS STEWART b. 1913 The Whare . rdm A Girl with Red Hair 1944 by permission of Angus and Robertson Ltd., Sydney, and the Sydney Bulletin A. P. GASKELL b. 1913 The Big Game School Picnic . From The Big Game 1947 by permission of The Caxton Press GREVILLE TEXIDOR b. 1902 An Annual Affair . From New Zealand New Writing, June 1944, by permission of the author CONTENTS JANET FRAME b. 1924 The Day of the Sheep From The Lagoon 195 b y permission of the author and The Caxton Press DAN DAVIN b. 1913 The General and the Nightingale . From The Gorse Blooms Pale 1947 by permission of the author BRUCE MASON b. 1921 The Glass Wig . From Landfall, December 1947, by permission of The Caxton Press JOHN REECE COLE b. 1916 It Was So Late From It Was So Late 1949 by permission of The Caxton Press ANTON VOGT b. 1914 The Accident . From the New Zealand Listener, January 1947, by permission of the editor and of the author DENNIS MCELDOWNEY b. 1926 By The Lake . From Book, July 1947, by permission of the author and The Caxton Press DAVlD BALLANTYNE b. 1924 And The Glory . From Landfall, June 1948, by permission of TheCaxton Press HELEN SHAW b. 1913 The Blind . From Arachne, December I 951, by permission of the author viii CONTENTS o. E. MIDDLETON b. 1925 Coopers Christmas . . 408 From Landfall, June 1950, by permission of The Caxton Press PHILLIP WILSON b...