RIO GRANDE'S LAST RACE
AND OTHER VERSES

by A. B. Paterson

Original 1902 Sydney edition

The verses in this collection have appeared in papers in various parts
of the world—"Rio Grande" in London; most of the war verses
in Bloemfontein; others in Sydney.
A. B. Paterson.


CONTENTS


[ Contents with First Lines ]

[ RIO GRANDE'S LAST RACE AND OTHER VERSES ]

[ Rio Grande's Last Race ]

[ By the Grey Gulf-water ]

[ With the Cattle ]

[ Mulga Bill's Bicycle ]

[ The Pearl Diver ]

[ The City of Dreadful Thirst ]

[ Saltbush Bill's Gamecock ]

[ Hay and Hell and Booligal ]

[ A Walgett Episode ]

[ Father Riley's Horse ]

[ The Scotch Engineer ]

[ Song of the Future ]

[ Anthony Considine ]

[ Song of the Artesian Water ]

[ A Disqualified Jockey's Story ]

[ The Road to Gundagai ]

[ Saltbush Bill's Second Fight ]

[ Hard Luck ]

[ Song of the Federation ]

[ The Old Australian Ways ]

[ The Ballad of the 'Calliope' ]

[ Do They Know ]

[ The Passing of Gundagai ]

[ The Wargeilah Handicap ]

[ Any Other Time ]

[ The Last Trump ]

[ Tar and Feathers ]

[ It's Grand ]

[ Out of Sight ]

[ The Road to Old Man's Town ]

[ The Old Timer's Steeplechase ]

[ In the Stable ]

[ "He Giveth His Beloved Sleep" ]

[ Driver Smith ]

[ There's Another Blessed Horse Fell Down ]

[ On the Trek ]

[ The Last Parade ]

[ With French to Kimberley ]

[ Johnny Boer ]

[ What Have the Cavalry Done ]

[ Right in the Front of the Army ]

[ That V.C. ]

[ Fed Up ]

[ Jock! ]

[ Santa Claus ]


[ From a section of Advertisements, 1909. ]

[ THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, ]

[ RIO GRANDE'S LAST RACE, AND OTHER VERSES. ]


[ Biographical Note: ]