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While the Billy Boils

by Henry Lawson · 1905

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<p><i>While the Billy Boils</i> collates <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/henry-lawson">Henry Lawson’s</a> most well known short stories of the 1890s, originally published in a variety of Australian and New Zealand newspapers—most prominently the Sydney <i>Bulletin</i>. Lawson presents a satirical and sometimes emotional study of frontier life in late colonial Australia, and the characters living in it.</p>

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