Hettie Ashwin

A Shilling on the Bar Hettie Ashwin

If you put a shilling on the bar for a beer, which cost 8 pence, then your change might be a story of the outback.

A Shilling on the Bar is a collection of stories that have been gathered by Trododniak Weatherness, Senior Magistrate as he travelled his circuit in far North Queensland in 1944.

Murder, mystery, strange ghost stories and mistaken identity. 16 yarns of outback Australia.

Who is to say if they are true, or just a yarn someone heard from someone else.