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Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Henry Lawson

Author: Henry Lawson

Editor: David Widger

Release date: August 16, 2018 [eBook #57706]
Most recently updated: July 7, 2019

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF HENRY LAWSON ***



INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF HENRY LAWSON



Compiled by David Widger



LAWSON



CONTENTS

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##  WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE

##  JOE WILSON AND HIS MATES

##  ON THE TRACK

##  OVER THE SLIPRAILS

##  CHILDREN OF THE BUSH

##  WHILE THE BILLY BOILS

##  THE RISING OF THE COURT

##  VERSES POPULAR AND HUMOROUS








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