First published in 1896, these stories and sketches follow shearers, swagmen, struggling selectors and the shrewd larrikin Mitchell along the tracks of the New South Wales outback. Lawson writes of drought, debt and hard-luck mateship in a laconic, unsentimental voice, from a farmer’s ruin on his selection to a camp-fire yarn and the old mate who drops in unannounced.
The collection that established Lawson as Australia’s great short-story writer. Download the free EPUB.