Verses popular and humorous

POPULAR AND HUMOROUS VERSES




BY HENRY LAWSON Author of “When the World was Wide and Other Verses,” “While the Billy Boils,” and “On the Track and Over the Sliprails”
“A hundred miles shall see to-night the lights of Cobb and Co.!” Sydney ANGUS AND ROBERTSON London: The Australian Book Company 38 West Smithfield, E.C. 1900 Sydney: Websdale, Shoosmith and Co., Printers, 117 Clarence Street.

My acknowledgments of the courtesy of the editors and proprietors of the newspapers in which most of these verses were first published are due and are gratefully discharged on the eve of my departure for England. Chief among them is the Sydney Bulletin ; others are the Sydney Town and Country Journal , Freeman’s Journal , and Truth , and the New Zealand Mail .
A few new pieces are included in the collection.
H. L.
Sydney, March 17th, 1900.