While the Billy Boils

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While the Billy Boils collates Henry Lawson’s most well known short stories of the 1890s, originally published in a variety of Australian and New Zealand newspapers—most prominently the Sydney Bulletin . Lawson presents a satirical and sometimes emotional study of frontier life in late colonial Australia, and the characters living in it.