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While the Billy Boils

by Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson’s first big book of stories, from 1896: shearers, swagmen, selectors and drovers’ dogs, told in a plain, dry voice that is very funny and then suddenly not at all. The billy is the tin can a bushman boiled his tea in over the fire. There is one on the fire in this room.

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Reading time

About 5 hr 40 min

Where to find it

The Australian Room, at the Antipodes

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #7144. In the public domain in the United States.