Three Elephant Power, and Other Stories
Paterson's comic prose: a racing-car scheme gone wrong, a cast-iron canvasser, clever dogs and hopeless horses.
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- In Australia
A. B. "Banjo" Paterson (author) died in 1941. Australian copyright then lasted 50 years after the author's death, so it ended on 31 December 1991. The 2005 extension to 70 years did not revive copyright that had already expired.
- In the United States
First published in 1917. In the United States, works published before 1 January 1931 are in the public domain.
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rights.json, checked 2026-10-19. Death dates: A. B. "Banjo" Paterson (Wikidata, ADB, catalogue). First publication: reference.
Contents
- THREE ELEPHANT POWER AND OTHER STORIES
- by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson
- 1917 Edition
- THREE ELEPHANT POWER
- THE ORACLE
- THE CAST-IRON CANVASSER
- THE MERINO SHEEP
- THE BULLOCK
- WHITE-WHEN-HE'S-WANTED
- THE DOWNFALL OF MULLIGAN'S
- THE AMATEUR GARDENER
- THIRSTY ISLAND
- DAN FITZGERALD EXPLAINS
- THE CAT
- SITTING IN JUDGMENT
- THE DOG
- THE DOG—AS A SPORTSMAN
- CONCERNING A STEEPLECHASE RIDER
- VICTOR SECOND
- CONCERNING A DOG-FIGHT
- HIS MASTERPIECE
- DONE FOR THE DOUBLE
- by Knott Gold
- Chapter I.—WANTED, A PONY
- Chapter II.—BLINKY BILL'S SACRIFICE
- Chapter III.—EXIT ALGY
- Chapter IV.—RUNNING THE RULE
- Chapter V.—THE TRICKS OF THE TURF
