VERSES POPULAR AND HUMOROUS

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{iv} Sydney: Websdale, Shoosmith and Co., Printers, 117 Clarence Street.

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PREFACE

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.

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VIGNETTES BY FRANK P. MAHONY

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THE PORTS OF THE OPEN SEA

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THE THREE KINGS[A]

[A] Three sea-girt pinnacles off North Cape, New Zealand.

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THE OUTSIDE TRACK

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SYDNEY-SIDE

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THE ROVERS

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FOREIGN LANDS

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MARY LEMAINE

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