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Henry Lawson. Joe Wilson and His Mates
Joe Wilson and His Mates
Table of Contents
Part I
Joe Wilson’s Courtship
Brighten’s Sister-In-Law
‘Water Them Geraniums’
I. A Lonely Track
II. ‘Past Carin’’
A Double Buggy at Lahey’s Creek
I. Spuds, and a Woman’s Obstinacy
II. Joe Wilson’s Luck
III. The Ghost of Mary’s Sacrifice
IV. The Buggy Comes Home
The Writer Wants to Say a Word
Part II
The Golden Graveyard
The Chinaman’s Ghost
The Loaded Dog
Poisonous Jimmy Gets Left
I. Dave Regan’s Yarn
II. Told by One of the Other Drovers
The Ghostly Door
Told by one of Dave’s mates
A Wild Irishman
The Babies in the Bush
A Bush Dance
The Buck-Jumper
Saturday afternoon
Jimmy Grimshaw’s Wooing
At Dead Dingo
Telling Mrs. Baker
A Hero in Dingo-Scrubs
The Little World Left Behind
The Never-Never Country
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Henry Lawson
Published by Good Press, 2019
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We fixed it for that same evening. We got chummy over the draughts. I had a suspicion even then that it was a put-up job to keep me away from the pub.
Perhaps she found a way of giving a hint to old Black without committing herself. Women have ways—or perhaps Jack did it. Anyway, next day the Boss came round and said to me—
