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While the Billy Boils
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Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Les Prairies Numeriques
Published: Feb 27 2026
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
While the Billy Boils is a collection of short stories by the Australian writer Henry Lawson, published by Angus and Robertson in 1896. It includes The Drover's Wife, On the Edge of a Plain, and The Union Buries Its Dead. The collection consists of 52 short stories from a variety of sources.
While the Billy Boils collates Henry Lawson's most well known short stories of the 1890s, originally published in a variety of Australian and New Zealand newspapers-most prominently the Sydney Bulletin. Lawson presents a satirical and sometimes emotional study of frontier life in late colonial Australia, and the characters living in it.
Contents
An Old Mate of Your Father's
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
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
The Drover's Wife
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
Steelman's Pupil
An Unfinished Love Story
Board and Residence
His Colonial Oath
Some Day
A Visit of Condolence
In a Wet Season
Rats
Mitchell A Character Sketch
The Bush Undertaker
Our Pipes
Coming Across A Study in the Steerage
The Story of Malachi
Two Dogs and a Fence
Jones's Alley
Brummy Usen
Bogg of Geebung
She Wouldn't Speak
The Geological Spieler
Macquarie's Mate
Baldy Thompson
For Auld Lang Syne
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