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'Breaking It Gently'
Edward Dyson
All was up with Richard Tanner--1896→City & society
'Stop-and-see'
Edward Dyson
I'm stewing in a brick-built town;1896→Goldfields & mining
A Big “Bust”
Edward Dyson
The wildest bust I ever struck,” the lean old bushman said,1901→Love & relationships
A Friendly Game of Football
Edward Dyson
We were challenged by The Dingoes--they're the pride of Squatter's Gap--1896→War & public life
A New Girl up at White's
Edward Dyson
There's a fresh track down the paddock1896→Goldfields & mining
A Poor Joke
Edward Dyson
'No, you can't count me in, boys; I'm off it--1896→Work & solidarity
AH LING, THE LEPER
Edward Dyson
Up a dark and fetid alley, where the offal and the slime1896→Love & relationships
Bashful Gleeson
Edward Dyson
From her home beyond the river in the parting of the hills,1896→War & public life
BATTERED BOB
Edward Dyson
He was working on a station in the Western when I knew him,1896→City & society
Bullocky Bill
Edward Dyson
From a river siding, the railway town,1896→City & society
Cleaning Up
Edward Dyson
When the horse has been unharnessed and we've flushed the old machine,1896→Work & solidarity
German Joe
Edward Dyson
Skirting the swamp and the tangled scrub,1896→Road, rail & travel
In 'the Benevolent'
Edward Dyson
I'm off on the wallaby!' cries Old Ben,1896→City & society
In Town
Edward Dyson
Out of work and out of money--out of friends that means, you bet--1896→Work & solidarity
Jonah's Luck
Edward Dyson
Out of luck, mate? Have a liquor. Hang it, where's the use complaining?1896→War & public life
Night Shift
Edward Dyson
'Hello! that's the whistle, be moving.1896→War & public life
Peter Simson's Farm
Edward Dyson
Simson settled in the timber when his arm was strong and true1896→Work & solidarity
SINCE NELLIE CAME TO LIVE ALONG THE CREEK
Edward Dyson
My hut is built of stringy-bark, the window's calico,1896→Work & solidarity
Struck It at Last
Edward Dyson
He was almost blind, and wasted1896→Road, rail & travel
THE DESERTED HOMESTEAD
Edward Dyson
Past a dull, grey plain where a world-old grief seems to brood o'er the silent land,1896→City & society
The Drovers in Reply
Edward Dyson
We are wondering why those fellows who are writing cheerful ditties1896→City & society
The Emu of Whroo
Edward Dyson
We've a tale to tell you of a spavined emit,1896→Work & solidarity
The Fossicker
Edward Dyson
A straight old fossicker was Lanky Mann,1896→Road, rail & travel
The Freak
Edward Dyson
Just beyond All Alone, going back,1896→War & public life
The Old Camp-oven
Edward Dyson
We don't keep a grand piano in our hut beside the creek,1896→War & public life
The Old Whim Horse
Edward Dyson
He's an old grey horse, with his head bowed sadly,1896→City & society
THE PROSPECTORS
Edward Dyson
When the white sun scorches the fair, green land in the rage of his fierce desires,1896→War & public life
The Rescue
Edward Dyson
There's a sudden, fierce clang of the knocker, then the sound of a voice in the shaft,1896→War & public life
The Shanty
Edward Dyson
There are tracks through the scrub, there's a track down the hill,1896→Goldfields & mining
The Silence of Mullock Creek
Edward Dyson
He was dubbed the Lisping Infant when he came to Mullock Creek ;1901→Love & relationships
The Splitter
Edward Dyson
In the morn when the keen blade bites the tree,1896→City & society
The Tale of Steven
Edward Dyson
'Tis the tale of Simon Steven, braceman at the Odd-and-Even,1896→City & society
The Tin-pot Mill
Edward Dyson
Quite a proud and happy man is Finn the Packer1896→War & public life
The Trucker
Edward Dyson
If you want a game to tame you and to take your measure in,1896→Sea & travel
The Worked-out Mine
Edward Dyson
On summer nights when moonbeams flow1896→Work & solidarity
To the Men of the Mines
Edward Dyson
We specked as boys o'er worked-out ground1896→Work & solidarity
To the Theoretical Selector
Edward Dyson
Would you be the King, the strong man, first in council and in toil,1896→War & public life
Waiting for Water
Edward Dyson
'Twas old Flynn, the identity, told us1896→War & public life
When Brother Peetree Prayed
Edward Dyson
'Twas a sleepy little chapel by a wattled hill erected,1896→Road, rail & travel
When the Bell Blew Up
Edward Dyson
'That's the boiler at The Bell, mates! Tumble out, Ned, neck and crop--1896→Love & relationships
Whose Wife
Edward Dyson
'Harry! what, that yourself, back to old Vic., man,1896→