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PREFACE

VIGNETTES BY FRANK P. MAHONY

THE PORTS OF THE OPEN SEA

THE OUTSIDE TRACK

SYDNEY-SIDE

THE ROVERS

FOREIGN LANDS

MARY LEMAINE

THE SHAKEDOWN ON THE FLOOR

REEDY RIVER

OLD STONE CHIMNEY

SONG OF THE OLD BULLOCK-DRIVER

THE LIGHTS OF COBB AND CO.

HOW THE LAND WAS WON

THE BOSS OVER THE BOARD

WHEN THE LADIES COME TO THE SHEARING SHED

THE BALLAD OF THE ROUSEABOUT

YEARS AFTER THE WAR IN AUSTRALIA

THE OLD JIMMY WOODSER

THE CHRIST OF THE ‘NEVER’

THE CATTLE-DOG’S DEATH

THE SONG OF THE DARLING RIVER

RAIN IN THE MOUNTAINS

A MAY NIGHT ON THE MOUNTAINS

THE NEW CHUM JACKAROO

THE DONS OF SPAIN

THE BURSTING OF THE BOOM

ANTONY VILLA A Ballad of Ninety-three

SECOND CLASS WAIT HERE

THE SHIPS THAT WON’T GO DOWN

THE MEN WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN

THE WAY OF THE WORLD

THE BATTLING DAYS

WRITTEN AFTERWARDS

THE UNCULTURED RHYMER TO HIS CULTURED CRITICS

THE WRITER’S DREAM

THE JOLLY DEAD MARCH

MY LITERARY FRIEND

MARY CALLED HIM ‘MISTER’

REJECTED

O’HARA, J.P.

BILL AND JIM FALL OUT

THE PAROO

THE GREEN-HAND ROUSEABOUT

THE MAN FROM WATERLOO (With kind regards to “Banjo.”)

SAINT PETER

THE STRANGER’S FRIEND

THE GOD-FORGOTTEN ELECTION

THE BOSS’S BOOTS

THE CAPTAIN OF THE PUSH

BILLY’S ‘SQUARE AFFAIR’

A DERRY ON A COVE

RISE YE! RISE YE!

THE BALLAD OF MABEL CLARE

CONSTABLE M‘CARTY’S INVESTIGATIONS

AT THE TUG-OF-WAR

HERE’S LUCK!

THE MEN WHO COME BEHIND

THE DAYS WHEN WE WENT SWIMMING

THE OLD BARK SCHOOL

TROUBLE ON THE SELECTION

THE PROFESSIONAL WANDERER

A LITTLE MISTAKE

A STUDY IN THE “NOOD”

A WORD TO TEXAS JACK

THE GROG-AN’-GRUMBLE STEEPLECHASE

BUT WHAT’S THE USE