While the Billy Boils

While the Billy Boils is a collection of short stories by the Australian writer Henry Lawson, published by Angus and Robertson in 1896. It includes "The Drover's Wife", "On the Edge of a Plain", and "The Union Buries Its Dead". The collection consists of 52 short stories from a variety of sources.

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.

Contents

"An Old Mate of Your Father's"

"Settling on the Land"

"Enter Mitchell"

"Stiffner and Jim (Thirdly, Bill)"

"When the Sun Went Down"

"The Man Who Forgot"

"Hungerford"

"A Camp-Fire Yarn"

"His Country - After All"

"A Day on a Selection"

"That There Dog O' Mine"

"Going Blind"

"Arvie Aspinall's Alarm Clock"

"Stragglers"

"The Union Buries Its Dead"

"On the Edge of a Plain"

"In a Dry Season"

"He'd Come Back"

"Another of Mitchell's Plans for the Future"

"Steelman"

"Drifted Back"

"Remailed"

"The Drover's Wife"

"Mitchell Doesn't Believe in the Sack"

"Shooting the Moon"

"His Father's Mate"

"An Echo from the Old Bark School"

"The Shearing of the Cook's Dog"

"'Dossing Out' and 'Camping'"

"Across the Straits"

"Steelman's Pupil"

"An Unfinished Love Story"

"Board and Residence"

"His Colonial Oath"

"Some Day"

"A Visit of Condolence"

"In a Wet Season"

"Rats"

"Mitchell : A Character Sketch"

"The Bush Undertaker"

"Our Pipes"

"Coming Across : A Study in the Steerage"

"The Story of Malachi"

"Two Dogs and a Fence"

"Jones's Alley"

"Brummy Usen"

"Bogg of Geebung"

"She Wouldn't Speak"

"The Geological Spieler"

"Macquarie's Mate"

"Baldy Thompson"

"For Auld Lang Syne"