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Title: Children of the Bush

Author: Henry Lawson

Release Date: December, 2004 [EBook #7065]
Posting Date: March 26, 2009

Language: English

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Produced by Geoffrey Cowling

CHILDREN OF THE BUSH

By Henry Lawson

[Transcriber's notes: The year of first magazine publication is shown in
the table of contents below. Additional transcriber's notes, including a
glossary, are included at the end of the eBook.]

Contents

Send Round the Hat: 1901
The Pretty Girl in the Army: 1901
"Lord Douglas": 1901
The Blindness of One-eyed Brogan: 1901
The Sundowners: 1901
A Sketch of Mateship: 1902
On the Tucker Track: 1897
A Bush Publican's Lament: 1901
The Shearer's Dream: 1902
The Lost Souls' Hotel: 1902
The Boozers' Home: 1899
The Sex Problem Again: 1898
The Romance of the Swag: 1901
"Buckholts' Gate": 1901
The Bush-Fire: 1901
The House that Was Never Built: 1901
"Barney, Take me home Again": 1901
A Droving Yarn: 1899
Gettin' Back on Dave Regan: 1901
"Shall We Gather at the River": 1901
His Brother's Keeper: 1901
The Ghosts of Many Christmases: 1901

SEND ROUND THE HAT

Now this is the creed from the Book of the Bush--
Should be simple and plain to a dunce:
"If a man's in a hole you must pass round the hat
Were he jail-bird or gentleman once."

"Is it any harm to wake yer?"

It was about nine o'clock in the morning, and, though it was Sunday
morning, it was no harm to wake me; but the shearer had mistaken me for
a deaf jackaroo, who was staying at the shanty and was something like
me, and had good-naturedly shouted almost at the top of his voice, and
he woke the whole shanty. Anyway he woke three or fo