Front Cover

Dedication Page
"From Bridget
To Phillip"

Hunting the Kangaroo

As we hunted the 'Roo at a rattling pace,
While the sheep-dogs joined in the stirring chase,
And a wild Hallo at the kill we'd raise -
We were light of heart in the droving days.

Colonial Experience

"He was always his mother's idol, since ever
     his father died;
And there isn't a horse on the station that
     he isn't game to ride!" - A.B. Paterson

Yarding Cattle

When an outlaw broke from the station mob,
With a right good will was the stockwhip plied,
As the old horse raced at the straggler's side,
And the greenhide whip such a weal would raise
We could use the whip in the droving days.
                              -A.B. Paterson.

A Danger of the Bush

Down along the Snakebite River, where the Overlander's camp
Where the serpents are in millions of every deadly stamp,
Johnston was a free selector, and his brain went rather queer
For the constant sight of serpents filled him with a deadly fear.
-A.B. Paterson

Bail-Up!!

"He stuck-up the Beechworth mail coach,
He robbed Judge MacEvoy-
And a terror to Australia was the Wild Colonial Boy!"
                                  -(Old Bushranging Song).

 

A Tragedy of the Drought

Where are the children that throve and grew
In the old homestead in days gone by?
One is away on the far Barcoo
Watching his horses the long year throught,
Watching them starve in the droughts and die.
                                             - A.B. Paterson.

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Sunny Australia Series, No. 5.