A Tail of Gold

A Tail of Gold by David Hennessy is about Major Smart and his drinking friends out on Christmas eve, reflecting on their careers as mine owners and ex-soldiers and dodging societal drama. Excerpt: "In the miner's dolly-pot it yielded a fair sample of what one might expect to get out of a bulk crushing from the gold-bearing reef of Humanity. Panned out in the prospecting dish, the sample Showed a tail of gold, which, if not wholly satisfactory, encouraged to proceed."