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Australian bush life & humour
A Bush-Bred Youngster
Thomas Edward Spencer
There's a lonely gorge in the mountains,1906→Australian bush life & humour
A Nicht Wi' Burns in Yackandandie
Thomas Edward Spencer
'Tis said that in the world's great span,1906→Bush humour & satire
Ballad of Mabel Clare: An Australian Story to Be Read and Sung Hereafter
Henry Lawson
Ye children of the Land of Gold,1900→Australian bush life & humour
Ben the Stoker
Thomas Edward Spencer
The Albatross sailed to the Southern Seas,1906→Australian bush life & humour
Blue-Eyed Nell
Thomas Edward Spencer
Have you seen little Nelly1906→Australian bush life & humour
Brogan's Flat
Thomas Edward Spencer
It wasn't quite the spot an average person would select1906→Humour & domestic life
Christmas
G. H. Gibson
By a New Chum.1878→Australian bush life & humour
Come Back to the Bush
Thomas Edward Spencer
I'm what they call a “solid man,”1906→Bush life & humour
Coomera
Henry Lawson
In spite of a dark and sickening suspicion that the story upon which1891→Bush humour & station life
Daley's Dorg Wattle
W. T. Goodge
“You can talk about yer sheep dorgs,” said the man from Allan's Creek,1899→Australian bush life & humour
Der Pritish Tar From Amsterdam
Thomas Edward Spencer
If you listen to mine shtory vat I tell,1906→Australian bush life & humour
Did You Ever?
Thomas Edward Spencer
Did you effer seen some leetle pootle dog1906→Bush humour & character
Drought and Doctrine
James Brunton Stephens
Come, take the tenner, doctor . . . yes, I know the bill says “five,”1885→Shearing & humour
Epitaph on a Convivial Shearer
G. H. Gibson
Here Thompson lies—good worthy man—1878→Australian bush life & humour
How McDougall Topped the Score
Thomas Edward Spencer
A peaceful spot is Piper's Flat. The folk that live around,1906→Bush humour
Last Week
A. B. Paterson
Oh, the new-chum went to the back block run,1893→Bush humour & station life
Mulligan's Shanty
W. T. Goodge
Things is just the same as ever1899→Australian bush life & humour
My Own Bonny Yacht
Thomas Edward Spencer
Song1906→Australian bush life & humour
Not Too Bad
Thomas Edward Spencer
De cottage vas close py der garden gate,1906→Australian bush life & humour
O'Mulligan's Wallaby Drive
Thomas Edward Spencer
Mr. Peter O'Mulligan often had thought1906→Australian bush life & humour
O'Toole and McSharry
Thomas Edward Spencer
A Lachlan Idyll1906→Bush humour & character
Quart Pot Creek
James Brunton Stephens
On an evening ramble lately, as I wandered on sedately,1885→Australian bush life & humour
Schneider Strauss
Thomas Edward Spencer
I vas all der country hunting for a man I vants to meet,1906→Australian bush life & humour
Simple Sam
Thomas Edward Spencer
Sam Fallow was a farming man1906→Bush humour & station life
The Bush Missionary
W. T. Goodge
’T was on old M’Carson’s station, near the finish of the shearing,1901→Australian bush life & humour
The Degeneration of Jim
Thomas Edward Spencer
Once he was a decent chap,1906→Australian bush life & humour
The Haunted Lagoon
Thomas Edward Spencer
There was once a man who came from Bundanoon,1906→Australian bush life & humour
The Irony of Fate
Thomas Edward Spencer
Paddy Rooke was the boss o' the shearin' shed,1906→Australian bush life & humour
The Legend of "Dead Man's Gully"
Thomas Edward Spencer
At Wheeo, in the county of King, is a lonely spot which bears the1906→Humour & tall tale
The Man From Ironbark
A. B. Paterson
It was the man from Ironbark who struck the Sydney town,1892→Australian bush life & humour
The Penitent Swagman
Thomas Edward Spencer
One summer day, my faithful steed and I,1906→Australian bush life & humour
The Prerogative of Piper's Flat
Thomas Edward Spencer
Given as an encore to “How M'Dougall Topped the Score,” at the public reception to1906→Australian bush life & humour
The Rouseabout
Thomas Edward Spencer
In a humble hut, on a scrubby flat,1906→Humour & domestic life
The Secret Whisky Cure
Henry Lawson
’Tis no tale of heroism, ’tis no tale of storm and strife,1905→Shearing & humour
The Shearer's Dream
Henry Lawson
‘Oh, I dreamt I shore in a shearin’ shed, and it was a dream of joy,1905→Australian bush life & humour
The Song of the Mason
Thomas Edward Spencer
Within an Abbey's sacred pile,1906→Australian bush life & humour
The Song of the Sundowner
Thomas Edward Spencer
I'm the monarch of valley, and hill, and plain,1906→Bush humour & character
The Squatter's Baccy Famine
James Brunton Stephens
In blackest gloom he cursed his lot;1885→Australian bush life & humour
The Stockman's Serenade
Thomas Edward Spencer
Gentle Jemima! hear me sing,1906→Bush life & humour
The Two Samaritans and the Tramp
Henry Lawson
A tramp was trampin' on the road--1890→Colonial humour & cultural stereotype
The Wedding of Winona
Thomas Edward Spencer
An Indian Legend1906→Australian bush life & humour
Tim Turpin
Thomas Edward Spencer
Tim Turpin by trade was a saddler,1906→Bush humour & character
Will Yer Write It Down for Me?
Henry Lawson
In the parlour of the shanty where the lives have all gone wrong,1905→