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Steelman poses as a geologist, with Smith as his offsider. They are offered accommodation in a railway camp and stay for several days, but decide to move on when they discover they are not the only tricksters in the camp.

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form y Steelman and Smith Cliff Green , Australia : ABC Television , 1980 7140680 1980 single work film/TV
— Appears in: Lawson's Mates 1980; (p. 58-104)

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Epigraph: 'There's nothing so interesting as geology, even to common and ignorant people, especially when you have a bank or the side of a cutting, studded with fossil fish and things and oysters that were stale when Adam was fresh to illustrate by. (Remark made by Steelman, professional wanderer, to his pal and pupil, Smith.)'

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y While the Billy Boils Henry Lawson , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1896 Z822461 1896 selected work short story Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1896
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1896
)
pg. 305-316
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y The Bulletin vol. 19 no. 984 24 December 1898 Z593121 1898 periodical issue 1898
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1898
)
pg. 32
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y Capajon : Fifty-Four Short Stories Published 1921-1933 Edward Garnett (editor), London : Jonathan Cape , 1933 Z1837076 1933 anthology short story London : Jonathan Cape , 1933
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1933
)
pg. 329-337
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y The Herald no. 17753 10 April 1934 16633720 1934 newspaper issue 1934
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1934
)
pg. 19
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y The Children's Lawson Henry Lawson , Colin Roderick , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1949 Z1312348 1949 selected work poetry short story children's Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1949
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1949
)
pg. 107-117
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y Henry Lawson's Humorous Stories Humorous Stories of Henry Lawson Henry Lawson , Cecil Mann , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1967 Z387803 1967 selected work short story humour North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1967
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1967
)
pg. 79-88
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y The Bush Undertaker and Other Stories Henry Lawson , Colin Roderick (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1970 Z386989 1970 selected work short story humour Abstract Includes a detailed bibliographic commentary on each story with particular attention to revisions. Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1970
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1970
)
pg. 44-51
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y While the Billy Boils : 87 Stories from the Prose Works of Henry Lawson Henry Lawson , Hawthorn : Lloyd O'Neil , 1970 Z1215630 1970 selected work short story Abstract Includes stories from Lawson's main collections - While the Billy Boils, On the Track and Over the Sliprails. Hawthorn : Lloyd O'Neil , 1970
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1970
)
pg. 180 - 187 Section: Second series
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y Henry Lawson : Selected Stories Henry Lawson , Brian Matthews (editor), Adelaide : Rigby , 1971 Z1216141 1971 selected work short story Adelaide : Rigby , 1971
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1971
)
pg. 43-50
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y Henry Lawson's Best Stories Henry Lawson , Cecil Mann , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1966 Z388119 1966 selected work short story London : Angus and Robertson , 1973
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1973
)
pg. 36-43
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y The World of Henry Lawson Henry Lawson , Walter Stone (editor), Dee Why West : Hamlyn , 1974 Z385949 1974 selected work poetry short story humour satire Dee Why West : Hamlyn , 1974
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1974
)
pg. 138-143
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y The Essential Henry Lawson : The Best Works of Australia's Greatest Writer Henry Lawson , Brian Kiernan (editor), South Yarra : Currey O'Neil , 1982 Z368836 1982 selected work poetry short story criticism biography South Yarra : Currey O'Neil , 1982
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1982
)
pg. 149-154
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y Prose Works of Henry Lawson Collected Short Stories of Henry Lawson Henry Lawson , Sydney : Home Entertainment Library , 1935 Z389778 1935 selected work short story Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1982
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1982
)
pg. 148-153
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y A Camp-Fire Yarn : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900 Henry Lawson , Leonard Cronin (editor), Sydney : Lansdowne , 1984 Z378657 1984 selected work poetry short story autobiography prose criticism drama biography Sydney : Lansdowne , 1984
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1984
)
pg. 439-443
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y My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years Leonie Kramer (editor), Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985 Z219820 1985 anthology poetry short story Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985
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1985
)
pg. 220-226
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y The Penguin Henry Lawson : Short Stories Henry Lawson , John Barnes (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 1986 Z282880 1986 selected work short story humour (taught in 8 units) Ringwood : Penguin , 1986
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1986
)
pg. 81-88
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y Henry Lawson's Humorous Stories Humorous Stories of Henry Lawson Henry Lawson , Cecil Mann , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1967 Z387803 1967 selected work short story humour North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1987
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1987
)
pg. 78-85
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y Henry Lawson's Mates : The Complete Stories of Henry Lawson Henry Lawson , Windsor : Budget Books Lloyd O'Neil , 1979 Z487806 1979 selected work short story autobiography humour Ringwood : Viking O'Neil , 1987
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1987
)
pg. 182-188
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y While the Billy Boils : The Original Newspaper Versions Henry Lawson , Paul Eggert (editor), Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2013 6155517 2013 selected work short story (taught in 3 units) Abstract
'Fifty-two of Henry Lawson's stories and sketches that he had first published in newspapers and magazines from 1888 onwards were gathered in his collection While the Billy Boils (Angus & Robertson, 1896). Lawson was not responsible for their ordering and he had to give ground on their texts, especially on his idiosyncratic presentation of wordings that helped to breathe life into his characters and situations. The present edition dismantles the fait accompli of 1896 by presenting the individual items in the chronological order of their first publication and with their original newspaper texts. This will allow a new appreciation of Lawson's writing, one that is attentive to his developing powers.
'The edition also facilitates a close study of Lawson's collaboration with the producers of the collection in 1896, in particular with his copy-editor Arthur W. Jose and publisher George Robertson. Facsimile images (available online) of the printer's copy that they prepared for While the Billy Boils supplement the edition's listing of the alterations that each of them made, revealing the textual history of each story or sketch.' (Publisher's blurb)
Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2013
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2013
)
pg. 377-391
Note: Title has original MS spelling 'The Geological Speiler [sic]'

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y The Short Stories of Henry Lawson Adrian Mitchell , Sydney : Sydney University Press in assoc. with Oxford University Press , 1995 Z940380 1995 single work criticism

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