The Project Gutenberg EBook of Some Everyday Folk and Dawn, by Miles Franklin

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

Author: Miles Franklin

Release Date: June 1, 2007 [EBook #21659]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOME EVERYDAY FOLK AND DAWN ***

Produced by Suzanne Shell, Sankar Viswanathan, and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Transcriber's Note:

The Table of Contents is not part of the original book.

SOME

EVERYDAY

FOLK

AND DAWN

MILES FRANKLIN

First published in Great Britain by

William Blackwood & Sons

1909

* * * * *

_TO THE

ENGLISH MEN WHO BELIEVE IN VOTES FOR WOMEN

THIS STORY IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,
BECAUSE THE WOMEN HEREIN CHARACTERISED WERE
NEVER FORCED TO BE

"SUFFRAGETTES,"

THEIR COUNTRYMEN
HAVING GRANTED THEM THEIR RIGHTS AS

SUFFRAGISTS

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1902.

M. F._

* * * * *

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

ONE. CLAY'S.

TWO. AT CLAY'S.

THREE. BECOMING ACQUAINTED WITH GRANDMA CLAY.

FOUR. DAWN'S AMBITION.

FIVE. MISS FLIPP'S UNCLE.

SIX. GRANDMA CLAY'S LOVE-STORY.

SEVEN. THE LITTLE TOWN OF NOONOON.

EIGHT. GRANDMA TURNS NURSE.

NINE. THE KNIGHT HAS A STOLEN VIEW OF THE LADY.

TEN. PROVINCIAL POLITICS AND SEMI-SUBURBAN DENTISTS.

ELEVEN. ANDREW DISGRACES HIS "RARIN'."

TWELVE. SOME SIDE-PLAY.

THIRTEEN. VARIOUS EVENTS.

FOURTEEN. THE PASSING OF THE TRAINS.

FIFTEEN. ALAS! MISS FLIPP!

SIXTEEN. ADVANCE, AUSTRALIA!

SEVENTEEN. MRS BRAY AND CARRY COME TO ISSUES.

EIGHTEEN. THE FOUNDATION OF THE POULTRY INDUSTRY.

NINETEEN. AN OPPORTUNELY INOPPORTUNE DOUCHE.

TWENTY.