While the Billy Boils

While the Billy Boils was published in 1896 and is considered amongst the best of Lawson's prose collections. It contains the stories:An Old Mate of Your Father'sSettling on the LandEnter MitchellStiffner and JimWhen the Sun Went DownThe Man who ForgotHungerfordA Camp Fire YarnHis Country - After AllA Day on a SelectionThat There Dog of MineGoing BlindArvie Aspinall's Alarm ClockStragglersThe Union Buries its DeadOn the Edge of a PlainIn a Dry SeasonHe'd Come BackAnother of Mitchell's...
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While the Billy Boils was published in 1896 and is considered amongst the best of Lawson's prose collections. It contains the stories:An Old Mate of Your Father'sSettling on the LandEnter MitchellStiffner and JimWhen the Sun Went DownThe Man who ForgotHungerfordA Camp Fire YarnHis Country - After AllA Day on a SelectionThat There Dog of MineGoing BlindArvie Aspinall's Alarm ClockStragglersThe Union Buries its DeadOn the Edge of a PlainIn a Dry SeasonHe'd Come BackAnother of Mitchell's Plans for the FutureSteelmanDrifted BackRemailedThe Drover's WifeMitchell Doesn't Believe in the SackShooting the MoonHis Father's MateAn Echo from the Old SchoolThe Shearing of the Cook's DogDossing Out and CampingAcross the StraitsSteelman's PupilAn Unfinished Love StoryBoard and ResidenceA Colonial OathSome DayA Visit of CondolenceIn a Wet SeasonRatsMitchell: A Character SketchThe Bush UndertakerOur PipesComing Across: A Study in the SteerageThe Story of MalachiTwo Dogs and a FenceJones's AlleyBrummy UsenBogg of GeebungShe Wouldn't SpeakThe Geological SpielerMacquarie's MateBaldy ThompsonAuld Lang SyneHenry Lawson (1867-1922) was born and raised on the gold fields of Glenfell and Gulgong in New South Wales. He became known as a bush poet and short story writer following his work as journalist for the Queensland radical newspaper the Boomerang where his republican and socialist views found expression. He established his reputation as the people's poet and story teller. However, he lived an itinerant life with and without his family, living in Western Australia, New Zealand and England. On his return to Sydney in 1902 his alcoholism and mental illness increased, leading to his separation from his wife and children.