While the Billy Boils
Henry Lawson
While the Billy Boils
Henry Lawson · English
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While the Billy Boils
Henry Lawson · English
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AN OLD MATE OF YOUR FATHER’S You remember when we hurried home from the old bush school how we were sometimes startled by a bearded apparition, who smiled kindly down on us, and whom our mother introduced, as we raked off our hats, as “An old mate of your father’s on the diggings, Johnny.” And he would pat our heads and say we were fine boys, or girls—as the case may have been—and that we had our father’s nose but our mother’s eyes, or the other way about; and say that the baby was the
While the Billy Boils
Henry Lawson
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