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# The Avalanche
## Contents

* Chapter I
* Chapter II
* Chapter III
* Chapter IV
* Chapter V
* Chapter VI
* Chapter VII
* Chapter VIII
* Chapter IX
* Chapter X
* Chapter XI
* Chapter XII
* Chapter XIII
* Chapter XIV
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# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Teece, Richard

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​Teece, Richard, son of the late William Teece and Catherine his wife, was born in the Bay of Islands, N.Z., on April 29th, 1847, and went with his family to New South Wales in 1852. Having gained a high reputation in connection with actuarial and assurance business, Mr. Teece was appointed general manager and actuary of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, a position of high responsibility, which he still holds. He has been President of the Free Trade and Liberal Association of New South Wales and President of the Australian Economic Association. He is also a Fellow and member of the senate of the University of Sydney, President of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Great Britain and Ireland, member of the American Society of Actuaries, member of the ​British Economic Association, President of Section F at the meeting of the Australasian Association held in Hobart in Jan. 1892. Mr. Teece married in Sydney on Feb. 12th, 1876, Miss Helena Palmer.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Therry, Sir Roger

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​Therry, Sir Roger, Knt., was born in Ireland on April 22nd, 1800, and was admitted to the Irish bar in 1824. He was appointed Commissioner of the Court of Requests for New South Wales in Nov. 1829; a magistrate in April 1830, and Attorney-General of the colony in May 1841 as locum tenens during the absence of Mr. Plunkett. In 1843, after a sharp contest with Mr. (afterwards Sir) Charles Cowper, he was returned for Camden to the old Legislative Council. He subsequently acted as Crown Prosecutor. In Jan. 1845 he succeeded the late Judge Jeffcott as Resident Judge at Port Phillip. In Feb. 1846 he was in turn succeeded by Mr. (afterwards Sir) William à Becket, and was gazetted a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and primary Judge in Equity. In 1859 he retired from the Bench, and went to live in England, where he died on May 17th, 1874, Lady Therry dying on the 27th of the same month. Whilst resident in England, after quitting Australia, Sir Roger published "Reminiscences of Thirty Years' Residence in New South Wales," which, containing as it did much curious data regarding private families and persons, created considerable stir, and ultimately the first edition was withdrawn from circulation and an expurgated version issued (1863). Sir Roger Therry was a Roman Catholic, and in his early career in New South Wales warmly vindicated the claims of his co-religionists to the freedom of conscience and liberty of worship which was for a long time denied them. In 1833 he defended six assigned servants, who were charged with insubordination on the estate of Major Mudie of the Hunter river. The men were convicted and executed, but an official inquiry instigated by Mr. Therry resulted in Major Mudie's name being removed from the commission of the peace. Two years later Mr. Therry was a candidate for the office of Chairman of Quarter Sessions, and was defeated by Mr. Riddell as the result of the animus which he had aroused amongst the magistrates by his action in the Castle-Forbes affair, as it was called. Before he left Ireland for Australia, Sir Roger was associated with O'Connell's Catholic emancipation agitation. He was also acquainted with the great statesman George Canning, and after the latter's death he edited the volumes of his speeches, which were published in London in 1828. Two years prior to this he had published "A Letter to the Right Hon. George Canning on the Present State of the Catholic Question." Sir Roger was one of the first members of the Senate of Sydney University.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Therry, Very Rev. John Joseph

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​Therry, Very Rev. John Joseph, Arch-Priest of Sydney, was born at Cork, in Ireland, in 1791, and entered Carlow College in his seventeenth year. He studied for the priesthood under the famous Dr. Doyle, and was ordained in 1815. He was appointed to a curacy in Cork, where he happened to meet Father O'Flynn, who had gone out to Sydney in 1817 to afford the Catholics there the ministrations of their religion, and who had been imprisoned and expelled from New South Wales by order of Governor Macquarie. The matter was represented in the House of Commons with the result that the Imperial Government became responsible for sending out to Australia two salaried and accredited priests, of whom Father Therry was one. They sailed from Cork in Dec. 1819, and arrived in Sydney in May 1820. On presenting their credentials they were coldly received by Governor Macquarie, who warned them not to try to make converts, not to celebrate mass publicly except on Sundays and the holy days of the Church of England, and not to interfere with the religious instruction of Catholic ​children in the orphan schools, all the inmates of which must be instructed in the faith and doctrines of the Church of England. Against this last prohibition Father Therry protested, and was, on one occasion, suspended from his clerical office for his pertinacity, and only reinstated after an appeal to the Imperial authorities. Father Therry, who laid the foundation-stone of St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, a year after his arrival, sent his coadjutor to Van Diemen's Land, and attended singly to the spiritual needs of the 10,000 Catholics of the colony for a period of five years, when Father McEncroe arrived. He did an excellent work amongst the convicts, and may be regarded as the apostle of Catholicism in Australia. On the arrival of the late Archbishop Ullathorne in Sydney in 1833, Father Therry became his subordinate. Subsequently he was stationed in Tasmania. Father Therry died at Balmain, Sydney, on May 25th, 1864.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Thomas, Right Rev. Mesac

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​Thomas, Right Rev. Mesac, D.D., Bishop of Goulburn, N.S.W., was son of John Thomas, of Aberffrwd, Cardiganshire, by the daughter of Edward Williams, of Llwynyrhedydd, Cardiganshire, and was born at Typoeth in that county in 1816. He was educated at Oswestry and Shrewsbury schools, and at Trinity ​College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1840, M.A. in 1843, and was made D.D. in 1863. He was ordained deacon in 1840, and priest in 1841, and commenced his ecclesiastical career as a curate at Birmingham. In 1843 he was appointed vicar of Tuddenham St. Martin, in Suffolk, and was Secretary to the Colonial Church and Schools Society from the latter year till 1863, when he was appointed the first Bishop of Goulburn. Bishop Thomas married in 1843 the second daughter of Thomas Hinton Hasluck, of Handsworth, near Birmingham. He died in New South Wales on March 15th, 1892.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Thomas, Margaret

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​Thomas, Margaret, an Australian sculptor and portrait painter, was born in Surrey, but taken to Victoria by her parents when quite a child. Miss Thomas received her first art education under the late Charles Summers, the sculptor, who had then a studio in Melbourne. She was one of the first three art students to apply for, and obtain permission, to draw from the casts and copy the pictures in the galleries of the Melbourne Public Library, and she exhibited both sculpture and paintings at the Victorian Society of Fine Arts Exhibition. Miss Thomas next proceeded to South Kensington, and from there to Rome, where she remained as a student over two years and a half. On returning to England, she was admitted a student of the Royal Academy, and won the silver medal for sculpture, this being the first occasion on which that distinction was bestowed on a lady student. After two years' study, Miss Thomas set up a London studio, and was a frequent exhibitor at the Academy—in 1874 having no less than six portraits on the walls. On the death of Mr. Charles Summers in 1878, it was decided to erect a memorial bust of him in the Shire Hall, Taunton, and Miss Thomas, his old Melbourne pupil, was chosen to execute the work, which was unveiled by the High Sheriff of the County of Somerset on Nov. 26th, 1880. Miss Thomas subsequently executed busts of a number of other "Somersetshire worthies" for the Shire Hall, Taunton, including that of Henry Fielding, unveiled by James Russell Lowell, then American Minister; General Jacob, of the Scinde Horse, founder of Jacobabad; and Dr. Wilson Fox, the Queen's physician. She recently finished (1891) a marble bust of the late Richard Jefferies, for Salisbury Cathedral. Miss Margaret Thomas is also an industrious littérateur, and has published a memoir of Charles Summers, entitled, "A Hero of the Workshop," and a quantity of verse in various English, American and Australian periodicals, a selection from which will be found in Mr. Douglas Sladen's "Anthology."
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Thomas, Robert

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​Thomas, Robert, a native of Wales, was born in 1781. Settling in London on coming of age, he was in business in Fleet Street for a lengthened period. When the colony of South Australia was about to be established he decided on starting a newspaper there, in conjunction with Mr. George Stevenson, who acted as editor. The first copy of the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register was printed in London on June 18th, 1836, prior to the departure of the first Governor and the first batch of emigrants. Mr. Thomas, with his wife and family, arrived in the colony by the Africaine in Nov. 1836; his eldest son Robert having preceded him as one of Colonel Light's Survey Staff in the Cygnet. The first number of the Register published in the colony appeared on June 3rd, 1837. Mr. Thomas lived many years after the success of his enterprising venture had surpassed his hopes. He had for some years severed his connection with the proprietary when he died, on July 1st, 1860.
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​Thomas, Robert (p. 464). In regard to the Register newspaper, the policy of the paper did not please the Government, whose representative about 1840 deprived Mr. Robert Thomas and his partner of the position and emoluments of Government printers. This deposition was strongly protested against by the sufferers, and Mr. Thomas visited England to take his grievance to Downing Street. He failed, however, to obtain redress, and his firm sank under an accumulation of embarrassments. Ultimately, however, the family connection with the Register was renewed under brighter auspices, and still continues.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Thomas, Hon. James Henry

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​Thomas, Hon. James Henry, M.L.C., M.I.C.E., formerly Director of Public Works and Commissioner of Railways, Western Australia, was the fourth son of William Thomas, of Berners Street, Oxford St., London, and was born on March 2nd, 1826. He was educated at University College School, London, from 1848 to 1854, and was engaged as superintending engineer in the royal arsenal of Spain, and on railways and other works in England, France and Belgium. In 1853 he became Engineer to the Fitzroy Dry Dock, Sydney, upon which he was employed from the laying of the first stone to its completion. At various times subsequently he held the offices, under the New South Wales Government, of Assistant Engineer for Roads and Bridges, Assistant Engineer for Railways, and for six years was Chief Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent of existing lines of railways. During his residence in New South Wales he surveyed the roads to Braidwood and Queanbeyan, with special reference to the laying down of a horse tramway from the city of Goulburn to those townships. In 1876 Mr. Thomas was appointed Director of Public Works and Commissioner of Railways in Western Australia, and subsequently became a member of the Executive and Legislative Councils. Mr. Thomas, who was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers on Jan. 14th, 1879, died on July 16th, 1884.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Thomas, Julian

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​Thomas, Julian, LL.D. ("The Vagabond"), a native of Virginia, U.S.A. took to journalism on the conclusion of the ​ Civil War, and was attached to papers in New York and San Francisco. He was in France during the Franco-German war, and afterwards visited South America, Tahiti, and Hawaii. He went to Australia in 1874, and commenced the series of "Vagabond" papers in the Melbourne Argus, which created a remarkable sensation, and were subsequently republished in book form. In 1877 he went to the newly discovered gold fields in Northern Queensland, and in the following year proceeded to New Caledonia as war correspondent during the native revolt. He was for some months with the French troops attached to the expedition of Henri Reviere, afterwards killed in Tonquin; and visited the Isle of Pines, being the only journalist ever allowed to land there. In 1879 he again travelled through Northern and Central Queensland. On his return he went to the Fiji Islands, and spent some months in that group; and in 1880 visited China, Japan, and British Columbia, returning to Australia in 1882. In that and the following year he spent a long time in the South Pacific, visiting New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, the Solomon Islands, and New Guinea, where he commanded the expedition sent out by the Argus proprietary. The "Vagabond" was the first to call attention in the press to French and German aggressions in the South Seas. In 1886 he was special correspondent of the Melbourne Argus at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition at South Kensington. In 1887 he revisited New Caledonia and the New Hebrides, on behalf of the Melbourne Age. He revisited England in 1888, and in 1889 went to Tonga and Samoa for the Age, saw the return of the deposed king Malietoa at the latter place, and witnessed the troubles in Tonga. He is author of "Vagabond Papers" (five series), "Occident and Orient," "Cannibals and Convicts", and several plays, of which No Mercy is the best known. The "Vagabond" claims to have travelled more extensively over Australia and New Zealand than any living journalist. In 1891-2 he acted as secretary to the Royal Commission on Charities appointed by the Victorian Government.
# The Consequences of Marrying a Deceased Wife's Sister

* Chapter I
* Chapter II
* Chapter III
* Chapter IV
* Chapter V
* Chapter VI
* Chapter VII
* Chapter VIII
* Chapter IX
* Chapter X
* Chapter XI
* Chapter XII
* Chapter XIII
* Chapter XIV
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# The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night/The Woman Who Had a Boy and the Other Who Had a Man to Lover

First-level story, told by Shehrzad (in theory)
THE WOMAN WHO HAD A BOY AND THE OTHER WHO HAD A MAN TO LOVER.
(Quoth Abou el Ainaä), There were in our street two women, one of whom had to lover a man and the other a beardless boy, and they foregathered one night on the roof of a house, not knowing that I was within hearing. Quoth one to the other, “O my sister, how canst thou brook the harshness of thy lover’s beard, as it falls on thy breast, when he kisses thee, and his moustaches rub thy cheek and lips?” “Silly wench that thou art,” replied the other, “what adorns the tree but its leaves and the cucumber but its bloom? Didst ever see aught uglier than a scald-head, with his beard plucked out? Knowest thou not that the beard is to men as the side-locks to women; and what is the difference between the chin and the cheek? Knowest thou not that God (blessed and exalted be He) hath created an angel in heaven, who saith, ‘Glory be to Him who adorneth men with beards and women with tresses?’ So, were not the beard even as the tresses in comeliness, it had not been coupled with them, O silly woman! How shall I underlie a boy, who ​will be hasty with me in emission and forestall me in flaccescence, and leave a man, who, when he takes breath, clips close and when he enters, goes leisurely, and when he has done, repeats, and when he pushes, pushes hard, and as often as he withdraws, returns?” The other was edified by her speech and said, “I forswear my lover by the Lord of the Kaabeh!”
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# The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night/The Woman Who Made Her Husband Sift Dust

Second-level story, contained in The Malice of Women
THE WOMAN WHO MADE HER HUSBAND SIFT DUST.
A man once gave his wife a dirhem to buy rice; so she went to the rice-seller, who gave her the rice and began to jest with her and ogle her, for she was fair and graceful, saying, “Rice is not good but with sugar, which if thou wilt have, come in with me awhile.” So she went in with him into his shop and he did his will of her and said to his slave, “Weigh her out a dirhem’s worth of sugar.” But he made the slave a privy sign, and the latter, taking the napkin, in which was the rice, emptied it out and put in its place earth, and for the sugar stones, after which he knotted the napkin up again and left it by her. Now the man’s object, in doing this, was that she should come to him a second time; so, when she went forth of the shop, he gave her the napkin and she took it, thinking to have in it rice and sugar, and went her way; but when she returned home and set it before her husband, he found in it earth and stones. So, when she came back with the cooking-pot, he said to her, “Did I tell thee that I had aught to build, that thou bringest me earth and stones?” When she saw this, she knew that the rice-seller’s slave had tricked her; so she said to her husband, “O man, in my trouble of mind for what hath befallen me, I went to fetch ​the sieve and brought the cooking-pot.” “What hath troubled thee?” asked he; and she said, “I dropped the dirhem thou gavest me in the market and was ashamed to search for it before the folk; yet I grudged to lose the money, so I gathered up the earth from the place where it fell and brought it away, thinking to sift it [when I came home]. Wherefore I went to fetch the sieve, but brought the cooking-pot instead.” Then she fetched the sieve and gave it to her husband, saying, “Do thou sift it; for thine eyes are better than mine.” So he sat, sifting the earth, till his face and beard were covered with dust; and he discovered not her trick, neither knew what had befallen her.
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# The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night/The Woman Whose Hands Were Cut Off for That She Gave Alms to the Poor

First-level story, told by Shehrzad
THE WOMAN WHOSE HANDS WERE CUT OFF FOR THAT SHE GAVE ALMS TO THE POOR.
A certain King once made proclamation to the people of his realm, saying, ‘If any of you give alms of aught, I will assuredly cut off his hand;’ wherefore all the people abstained from alms-giving, and none could give to any.
One day a beggar accosted a certain woman (and indeed hunger was sore upon him) and said to her, Night cccxlviii.‘Give me an alms.’ ‘How can I give thee aught,’ answered she, ‘when the King cutteth off the hands of all who give alms?’ But he said, ‘I conjure thee by God the Most High, give me an alms.’ So, when he adjured her by God, she had compassion on him and gave him two cakes of bread. The King heard of this; so he called her before him and cut off her hands, after which she returned to her house.
A while after, the King said to his mother, ‘I have a mind to take a wife; so do thou marry me to a fair woman.’ Quoth she, ‘There is among our female slaves one who is unsurpassed in beauty; but she hath a grievous blemish.’ ‘What is that?’ asked the King; and his ​mother answered, ‘She hath had both her hands cut off.’ Said he, ‘Let me see her.’ So she brought her to him, and he was ravished by her and married her and went in to her; and she brought him a son.
Now this was the woman, who had her hands cut off for alms-giving; and when she became queen, her fellow-wives envied her and wrote to the King [who was then absent] that she was unchaste; so he wrote to his mother, bidding her carry the woman into the desert and leave her there. The old queen obeyed his commandment and abandoned the woman and her son in the desert; whereupon she fell to weeping and wailing exceeding sore for that which had befallen her. As she went along, with the child at her neck, she came to a river and knelt down to drink, being overcome with excess of thirst, for fatigue and grief; but, as she bent her head, the child fell into the water.
Then she sat weeping sore for her child, and as she wept, there came up two men, who said to her, ‘What makes thee weep?’ Quoth she, ‘I had a child at my neck, and he hath fallen into the water.’ ‘Wilt thou that we bring him out to thee?’ asked they, and she answered, ‘Yes.’ So they prayed to God the Most High, and the child came forth of the water to her, safe and sound. Quoth they, ‘Wilt thou that God restore thee thy hands as they were?’ ‘Yes,’ replied she: whereupon they prayed to God, blessed and exalted be He! and her hands were restored to her, goodlier than before. Then said they, ‘Knowst thou who we are?’ ‘God [only] is all-knowing,’ answered she; and they said, ‘We are thy two cakes of bread, that thou gavest in alms to the beggar and which were the cause of the cutting off of thy hands. So praise thou God the Most High, for that He hath restored thee thy hands and thy child.’ So she praised God the Most High and glorified Him.
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# The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night/The Woman’s Trick Against Her Husband

First-level story, told by Shehrzad
THE WOMAN’S TRICK AGAINST HER HUSBAND.
A man brought his wife a fish one Friday and bidding her cook it against the end of the congregational prayers, went out to his business. Meanwhile, there came in her friend, who bade her to a wedding at his house; so she agreed and laying the fish in a jar of water, went off with him and was absent a whole week, whilst her husband sought her from house to house and enquired after her; but none could give him any news of her.
On the following Friday, she came home, [and he fell to chiding and reproaching her;] but she brought out to him the fish alive from the jar and assembled the folk against him. Night cccxciv.He told them his case; but they credited him not and said, ‘It cannot be that the fish should have remained alive all this while.’ So they caused adjudge him mad and imprisoned him and laughed at him, whereupon he wept sore and recited the following verses:
A hag, that holds high rank, indeed, in lewdness! In her face Are witnesses that testify to filth and wantonness. When she’s unclean, she bawds; and when she’s clean, she plays the whore: So, all her time, she’s either bawd or else adulteress.
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