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 By the same Author WHILE THE BILLY BOILS

FirtH EDITION, COMPLETING THE 28RD THOUSAND

EXTRACTS FROM ENGLISH PRESS NOTICES:

““4 collection of short and vigorous studies and, stories of Australian life and character. A little in Bret Hurte's manner, crossed, perhaps, with that of Guy de Maupassant.”—THE TIMES. “4 book of honest, direct, sympathetic, humor - ous writing about Australia from within is worth @ library of travellers’ tales. Mr. Lawson shows us what living in the bush really means. The result 18 a real book—aq book in o hundred. His language 1is terse, supple, and richly idio- matic ”—THE ACADEMY. ‘A book which Mrs. Campbell Praed, the Australian novelist, assured me made her feel that all she had written of bush life was pale and ineffective.”—Mr. A. Patchett Martin in LITERATURE (London). * In these days when short, dramatic stories are eagerly looked for, it is strange that one we would venture to call the greatest Australion writer should be practically unknown in England. Short stories, but biting into the very heart of the bush- man’s life, ruthless n truth, extraordinarily dramatic, and pathetically uneven. . . ., —THE SPECTATOR,

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