While the Billy Boils
by Henry Lawson
1905FictionSocial life and customsAustralia in fictionFrontier and pioneer lifeFrontier and pioneer life in fiction
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You remember when we hurried home from the old bush school how we were sometimes startled by a bearded apparition, who smiled kindly down on us, and whom our mother introduced, as we raked off our hats, as "An old mate of your father's on the diggings, Johnny."
About this book
<p><i>While the Billy Boils</i> collates <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/henry-lawson">Henry Lawson’s</a> most well known short stories of the 1890s, originally published in a variety of Australian and New Zealand newspapers—most prominently the Sydney <i>Bulletin</i>. Lawson presents a satirical and sometimes emotional study of frontier life in late colonial Australia, and the characters living in it.</p>
Themes & subjects
FictionSocial life and customsAustralia in fictionFrontier and pioneer lifeFrontier and pioneer life in fictionFiction, short stories (single author)
First published 1905Setting
Australia
About the author
Henry Lawson
17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922
> **Andy's Gone With Cattle** > > Our Andy's gone to battle now > 'Gainst Drought, the red marauder; > Our Andy's gone with cattle now > Across the Queensland border. > > He's left us in dejection now; Our > hearts with him are roving. It's dull > on this selection now, Since Andy went > a-droving. > > Who now shall wear the cheerful face > In times when things are slackest? And > who shall whistle round the place When > Fortune frowns her blackest? > > Oh, who shall cheek the squatter now > When he comes round us snarling? His > tongue is growing hotter now Since > Andy cross'd the Darling. > > The gates are out of order now, In > storms the `riders' rattle…
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