While the Billy Boils

by Henry Lawson

'They would talk of some old lead.'

HENRY LAWSON

Author of When the World Was Wide, and Other Verses; Joe Wilson and His Mates; On the Track and Over the Sliprails; Verses, Popular and Humorous; When I Was King, and Other Verses; Children of the Bush; etc.

LONDON

ANGUS AND ROBERTSON Ltd.

1913

Printed by

Marchant & Co., Ltd., Sydney

for

Angus & Robertson Limited.

London: The Oxford University Press,

Amen Corner, E.C.

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.

In the absence of the author, who is now resident in Western Australia, it devolves upon us to make the customary acknowledgments to the various journals from which these stories are reprinted. Most of them first appeared in the Sydney Bulletin, a number of them in the Sydney Worker, and others in the New Zealand Mail, the New Zealand Times, Sydney Truth, the Brisbane Boomerang, the Maryborough Patriot, and The Antipodean, while two are now published for the first time.

We might rightly be deemed ungrateful did we not take this opportunity of thanking the Press of Australia and New Zealand for the aid they have given us in our effort to publish here, and in a presentable form, the works of some of our living writers. Especially are our thanks due to the proprietors of the Sydney Bulletin who have in many ways assisted us.

THE PUBLISHERS,

Sydney, 14th August, 1896.

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Settling on the Land

Enter Mitchell

Stiffner and Jim (Thirdly, Bill)

When the Sun Went Down

The Man Who Forgot

Hungerford

A Camp-Fire Yarn

His Country—After All

A Day on a Selection