While The Billy Boils

Henry Lawson

• Publisher: Caelwick Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9788967924089
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

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. Henry Lawson (died 1922) was a major literary figure of the early 20th century. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. The short story is one of the most demanding and rewarding of literary forms, requiring a writer to achieve in a few pages what a novelist might take hundreds to accomplish. The stories gathered in While The Billy Boils showcase the author's mastery of compression, suggestion, and the perfectly chosen detail. Public domain works like While The Billy Boils represent humanity's shared literary heritage. They have survived wars, revolutions, and the passage of centuries because they speak to something enduring in human experience. Reading them connects us to the long chain of readers who have found meaning, pleasure, and insight in these same pages. This ebook edition makes While The Billy Boils available without cost or restriction, as part of ' ongoing mission to produce beautiful, carefully prepared digital editions of the world's great public domain literature.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• WHILE THE BILLY BOILS
• FIRST SERIES
• 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
• 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.