INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF HENRY LAWSON
Compiled by David Widger
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TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES
IN THE DAYS WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE AND OTHER VERSES
by Henry Lawson
[Australian house-painter, author and poet — 1867-1922.]
CONTENTS
PREFACE
To an Old Mate
IN THE DAYS WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE AND OTHER VERSES
Faces in the Street
The Roaring Days
'For'ard'
The Drover's Sweetheart
Out Back
The Free-Selector's Daughter
'Sez You'
Andy's Gone With Cattle
Jack Dunn of Nevertire
Trooper Campbell
The Sliprails and the Spur
Past Carin'
The Glass on the Bar
The Shanty on the Rise
The Vagabond
Sweeney
Middleton's Rouseabout
The Ballad of the Drover
Taking His Chance
When the 'Army' Prays for Watty
The Wreck of the 'Derry Castle'
Ben Duggan
The Star of Australasia
The Great Grey Plain
The Song of Old Joe Swallow
Corny Bill
Cherry-Tree Inn
Up the Country
Knocked Up
The Blue Mountains
The City Bushman
Eurunderee
Mount Bukaroo
The Fire at Ross's Farm
The Teams
Cameron's Heart
The Shame of Going Back
Since Then
Peter Anderson and Co.
When the Children Come Home
Dan, the Wreck
A Prouder Man Than You
The Song and the Sigh
The Cambaroora Star
After All
Marshall's Mate
The Poets of the Tomb
Australian Bards and Bush Reviewers
The Ghost
The End.
JOE WILSON AND HIS MATES
by Henry Lawson
CONTENTS
JOE WILSON AND HIS MATES
The Author’s Farewell to the Bushmen.
Part I.
Joe Wilson’s Courtship.
Brighten’s Sister-In-Law.
‘Water Them Geraniums’.
I. A Lonely Track.
II. ‘Past Carin’’.
A Double Buggy at Lahey’s Creek.
I. Spuds, and a Woman’s Obstinacy.
II. Joe Wilson’s Luck.
III. The Ghost of Mary’s Sacrifice.
IV. The Buggy Comes Home.
The Writer Wants to Say a Word.
Part II.
The Golden Graveyard.
The Chinaman’s Ghost.
The Loaded Dog.
Poisonous Jimmy Gets Left.
I. Dave Regan’s Yarn.
II. Told by One of the Other Drovers.
The Ghostly Door.
A Wild Irishman.
The Babies in the Bush.
A Bush Dance.
The Buck-Jumper.
Jimmy Grimshaw’s Wooing.
At Dead Dingo.
Telling Mrs Baker.
A Hero in Dingo-Scrubs.
The Little World Left Behind.
The Never-Never Country.
ON THE TRACK
by Henry Lawson
CONTENTS
Preface
ON THE TRACK
The Songs They used to Sing
A Vision of Sandy Blight
Andy Page's Rival
The Iron-Bark Chip
“Middleton's Peter”
The Mystery of Dave Regan
Mitchell on Matrimony
Mitchell on Women
No Place for a Woman
Mitchell's Jobs
Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster
Bush Cats
Meeting Old Mates
Two Larrikins
Mr. Smellingscheck
“A Rough Shed”
Payable Gold
An Oversight of Steelman's
How Steelman told his Story
About the author
OVER THE SLIPRAILS
By Henry Lawson
CONTENTS
Preface
OVER THE SLIPRAILS
The Shanty-Keeper's Wife
A Gentleman Sharper and Steelman Sharper
An Incident at Stiffner's
The Hero of Redclay
The Darling River
A Case for the Oracle
A Daughter of Maoriland
New Year's Night
Black Joe
They Wait on the Wharf in Black
Seeing the Last of You
Two Boys at Grinder Brothers'
The Selector's Daughter
Mitchell on the “Sex” and Other “Problems”
The Master's Mistake
The Story of the Oracle
About the author:
CHILDREN OF THE BUSH
By Henry Lawson
CONTENTS
SEND ROUND THE HAT
THAT PRETTY GIRL IN THE ARMY
“LORD DOUGLAS”
THE BLINDNESS OF ONE-EYED BOGAN
TWO SUNDOWNERS
A SKETCH OF MATESHIP
ON THE TUCKER TRACK: A STEELMAN STORY
A BUSH PUBLICAN'S LAMENT
THE SHEARER'S DREAM
THE LOST SOULS' HOTEL
THE BOOZERS' HOME
THE SEX PROBLEM AGAIN
THE ROMANCE OF THE SWAG
“BUCKOLTS' GATE”
PROLOGUE
THE BUSH-FIRE
THE HOUSE THAT WAS NEVER BUILT
“BARNEY, TAKE ME HOME AGAIN”
A DROVING YARN
GETTIN' BACK ON DAVE REGAN
“SHALL WE GATHER AT THE RIVER?”
HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER
THE STORY OF “GENTLEMAN ONCE”
THE GHOSTS OF MANY CHRISTMASES
WHILE THE BILLY BOILS
By Henry Lawson
CONTENTS
WHILE THE BILLY BOILS
FIRST SERIES
AN OLD MATE OF YOUR FATHER'S
SETTLING ON THE LAND
ENTER MITCHELL
STIFFNER AND JIM
WHEN THE SUN WENT DOWN
THE MAN WHO FORGOT
HUNGERFORD
A CAMP-FIRE YARN
HIS COUNTRY-AFTER ALL
A DAY ON A SELECTION
THAT THERE DOG O' MINE
GOING BLIND
ARVIE ASPINALL'S ALARM CLOCK
STRAGGLERS
THE UNION BURIES ITS DEAD
ON THE EDGE OF A PLAIN
IN A DRY SEASON
HE'D COME BACK
ANOTHER OF MITCHELL'S PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
STEELMAN
DRIFTED BACK
REMAILED
MITCHELL DOESN'T BELIEVE IN THE SACK
SHOOTING THE MOON
HIS FATHER'S MATE
AN ECHO FROM THE OLD BARK SCHOOL
THE SHEARING OF THE COOK'S DOG
“DOSSING OUT” AND “CAMPING”
ACROSS THE STRAITS
“SOME DAY”
“BRUMMY USEN”
SECOND SERIES
THE DROVER'S WIFE
STEELMAN'S PUPIL
AN UNFINISHED LOVE STORY
BOARD AND RESIDENCE
HIS COLONIAL OATH
A VISIT OF CONDOLENCE
IN A WET SEASON
“RATS”
MITCHELL: A CHARACTER SKETCH
THE BUSH UNDERTAKER
OUR PIPES
COMING ACROSS
THE STORY OF MALACHI
TWO DOGS AND A FENCE
JONES'S ALLEY
BOGG OF GEEBUNG
SHE WOULDN'T SPEAK
THE GEOLOGICAL SPIELER
MACQUARIE'S MATE
BALDY THOMPSON
FOR AULD LANG SYNE
NOTES ON AUSTRALIANISMS.
THE RISING OF THE COURT
By Henry Lawson
Note: Only the prose stories are reproduced here, not the poetry.
CONTENTS
THE RISING OF THE COURT “ROLL UP AT TALBRAGAR” WANTED BY THE POLICE THE BATH INSTINCT GONE WRONG THE HYPNOTIZED TOWNSHIP THE EXCISEMAN MATESHIP IN SHAKESPEARE’S ROME |
VERSES
POPULAR AND HUMOROUS
BY
HENRY LAWSON
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| THE PORTS OF THE OPEN SEA | |
|---|---|
| Down here where the ships loom large in | 1 |
| THE THREE KINGS | |
| The East is dead and the West is done, and again our course lies thus:— | 5 |
| THE OUTSIDE TRACK | |
| There were ten of us there on the moonlit quay, | 8 |
| SYDNEY-SIDE | |
| Where's the steward?—Bar-room steward? Berth? Oh, any berth will do— | 10 |
| THE ROVERS | |
| Some born of homely parents | 13 |
| FOREIGN LANDS | |
| You may roam the wide seas over, follow, meet, and cross the sun,{viii} | 18 |
| MARY LEMAINE | |
| Jim Duff was a 'native,' as wild as could be; | 22 |
| THE SHAKEDOWN ON THE FLOOR | |
| Set me back for twenty summers— | 25 |
| REEDY RIVER | |
| Ten miles down Reedy River | 28 |
| OLD STONE CHIMNEY | |
| The rising moon on the peaks was blending | 31 |
| SONG OF THE OLD BULLOCK-DRIVER | |
| Far Back in the days when the blacks used to ramble | 35 |
| THE LIGHTS OF COBB AND CO. | |
| Fire lighted, on the table a meal for sleepy men, | 39 |
| HOW THE LAND WAS WON | |
| The future was dark and the past was dead | 45 |
| THE BOSS OVER THE BOARD | |
| When he's over a rough and unpopular shed,{ix} | 48 |
| WHEN THE LADIES COME TO THE SHEARING SHED | |
| 'The ladies are coming,' the super says | 52 |
| THE BALLAD OF THE ROUSEABOUT | |
| A rouseabout of rouseabouts, from any land—or none— | 55 |
| YEARS AFTER THE WAR IN AUSTRALIA | |
| The big rough boys from the runs out back were first where the balls flew free, | 60 |
| THE OLD JIMMY WOODSER | |
| The old Jimmy Woodser comes into the bar, | 67 |
| THE CHRIST OF THE 'NEVER' | |
| With eyes that seem shrunken to pierce | 69 |
| THE CATTLE-DOG'S DEATH | |
| The plains lay bare on the homeward route, | 71 |
| THE SONG OF THE DARLING RIVER | |
| The skies are brass and the plains are bare, | 73 |
| RAIN IN THE MOUNTAINS | |
| The valley's full of misty cloud,{x} | 75 |
| A MAY NIGHT ON THE MOUNTAINS | |
| 'Tis a wonderful time when these hours begin, | 76 |
| THE NEW CHUM JACKAROO | |
| Let bushmen think as bushmen will, | 78 |
| THE DONS OF SPAIN | |
| The Eagle screams at the beck of trade, so Spain, as the world goes round, | 81 |
| THE BURSTING OF THE BOOM | |
| The shipping office clerks are 'short,' the manager is gruff— | 84 |
| ANTONY VILLA | |
| Over there, above the jetty, stands the mansion of the Vardens, | 90 |
| SECOND CLASS WAIT HERE | |
| On suburban railway stations—you may see them as you pass— | 96 |
| THE SHIPS THAT WON'T GO DOWN | |
| We hear a great commotion | 99 |
| THE MEN WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN | |
| When God's wrath-cloud is o'er me{xi} | 101 |
| THE WAY OF THE WORLD | |
| When fairer faces turn from me, | 103 |
| THE BATTLING DAYS | |
| So, sit you down in a straight-backed chair, with your pipe and your wife content, | 105 |
| WRITTEN AFTERWARDS | |
| So the days of my tramping are over, | 108 |
| THE UNCULTURED RHYMER TO HIS CULTURED CRITICS | |
| Fight through ignorance, want, and care— | 111 |
| THE WRITER'S DREAM | |
| A writer wrote of the hearts of men, and he followed their tracks afar; | 113 |
| THE JOLLY DEAD MARCH | |
| If I ever be worthy or famous— | 121 |
| MY LITERARY FRIEND | |
| Once I wrote a little poem which I thought was very fine, | 125 |
| MARY CALLED HIM 'MISTER' | |
| They'd parted but a year before—she never thought he'd come,{xii} | 127 |
| REJECTED | |
| She says she's very sorry, as she sees you to the gate; | 130 |
| O'HARA, J.P. | |
| James Patrick O'Hara, the Justice of Peace, | 134 |
| BILL AND JIM FALL OUT | |
| Bill and Jim are mates no longer—they would scorn the name of mate— | 138 |
| THE PAROO | |
| It was a week from Christmas-time, | 142 |
| THE GREEN-HAND ROUSEABOUT | |
| Call this hot? I beg your pardon. Hot!—you don't know what it means. | 146 |
| THE MAN FROM WATERLOO | |
| It was the Man from Waterloo, | 151 |
| SAINT PETER | |
| Now, I think there is a likeness | 155 |
| THE STRANGER'S FRIEND | |
| The strangest things, and the maddest things, that a man can do or say,{xiii} | 158 |
| THE GOD-FORGOTTEN ELECTION | |
| Pat M'Durmer brought the tidings to the town of God-Forgotten: | 162 |
| THE BOSS'S BOOTS | |
| The shearers squint along the pens, they squint along the 'shoots;' | 168 |
| THE CAPTAIN OF THE PUSH | |
| As the night was falling slowly down on city, town and bush, | 174 |
| BILLY'S 'SQUARE AFFAIR' | |
| Long Bill, the captain of the push, was tired of his estate, | 181 |
| A DERRY ON A COVE | |
| 'Twas in the felon's dock he stood, his eyes were black and blue; | 185 |
| RISE YE! RISE YE! | |
| Rise ye! rise ye! noble toilers! claim your rights with fire and steel! | 187 |
| THE BALLAD OF MABEL CLARE | |
| Ye children of the Land of Gold,{xiv} | 190 |
| CONSTABLE M'CARTHY'S INVESTIGATIONS | |
| Most unpleasantly adjacent to the haunts of lower orders | 196 |
| AT THE TUG-OF-WAR | |
| 'Twas in a tug-of-war where I—the guvnor's hope and pride— | 205 |
| HERE'S LUCK! | |
| Old Time is tramping close to-day—you hear his bluchers fall, | 208 |
| THE MEN WHO COME BEHIND | |
| There's a class of men (and women) who are always on their guard— | 211 |
| THE DAYS WHEN WE WENT SWIMMING | |
| The breezes waved the silver grass, | 214 |
| THE OLD BARK SCHOOL | |
| It was built of bark and poles, and the floor was full of holes | 216 |
| TROUBLE ON THE SELECTION | |
| You lazy boy, you're here at last, | 220 |
| THE PROFESSIONAL WANDERER | |
| When you've knocked about the country—been away from home for years;{xv} | 222 |
| A LITTLE MISTAKE | |
| 'Tis a yarn I heard of a new-chum 'trap' | 225 |
| A STUDY IN THE "NOOD" | |
| He was bare—we don't want to be rude— | 228 |
| A WORD TO TEXAS JACK | |
| Texas Jack, you are amusin'. By Lord Harry, how I laughed | 231 |
| THE GROG-AN'-GRUMBLE STEEPLECHASE | |
| 'Twixt the coastline and the border lay the town of Grog-an'-Grumble | 237 |
| BUT WHAT'S THE USE | |
| But what's the use of writing 'bush'— | 242 |
VIGNETTES BY FRANK P. MAHONY
| Portrait of the Author | facing title page |
| The Lights of Cobb and Co. | title page |
| My Literary Friend | page xvi. |