While the Billy Boils

<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>

First sentence: 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."

Year

1905

Language

English

Publisher

Dodo Press

Editions

23

Pages

256

ISBN

9781406536171

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