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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.
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Fiction, Social life and customs, Australia in fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Frontier and pioneer life in fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Australia, fiction, Short stories, Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction, Australia -- Social life and customs -- FictionPlaces
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While the Billy Boils
July 1988, HarperCollins, Angus & Robertson Childrens
0207159440 9780207159442
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"You remember when we hurried home from the old bush school how we were sometimes startled by a bearded apparition, who smiled kindly down on us, and whom our mother introduced, as we raked off our hats, as "An old mate of your father's on the diggings, Johnny.""
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