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Verses Popular and Humorous

Name: Verses Popular and Humorous
Author: Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson

Read by Matthew Squaire, Ellies, Nemo, Bruce Kachuk, Josh Kibbey, Jabu2906, Kathleen Moore, Jim Gallagher, realisticspeakers, Campbell Schelp, Algy Pug and Your Short Story Teller · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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The Ports of the Open Sea (3:39)
The Three Kings (2:42)
The Outside Track (1:53)
Sydney-Side (3:00)
The Rovers (3:33)
Foreign Lands (3:38)
Mary Lemaine (2:39)
The Shakedown on the Floor (2:44)
Reedy River (2:34)
Old Stone Chimney (5:20)
Song of the Old Bullock-Driver (4:10)
The Lights of Cobb and Co. (6:37)
How the Land was Won (4:11)
The Boss over the Board (3:43)
When the Ladies Come to the Shearing Shed (2:50)
The Ballad of the Rouseabout (3:40)
Years after the War in Australia (4:44)
The Old Jimmy Woodser (1:54)
The Christ of the 'Never' (1:50)
The Cattle-Dog's Death (2:10)
The Song of the Darling River (2:30)
Rain in the Mountains (0:52)
A May Night on the Mountains (1:48)
The New Chum Jackaroo (2:04)
The Dons of Spain (2:19)
The Bursting of the Boom (4:21)
Antony Villa (5:10)
Second Class Wait Here (2:42)
The Ships that Won't Go Down (1:33)
The Men We Might Have Been (1:26)
The Way of the World (1:40)
The Battling Days (3:17)
Written Afterwards (3:56)
The Uncultured Rhymer to His Cultured Critics (1:46)
The Writer's Dream (9:25)
The Jolly Dead March (3:19)
My Literary Friend (1:38)
Mary Called Him 'Mister' (2:00)
Rejected (2:51)
O'Hara, J.P. (3:45)
Bill and Jim Fall Out (2:18)
The Paroo (2:45)
The Green-Hand Roseabout (3:10)
The Man from Waterloo (2:46)
Saint Peter (1:43)
The Stranger's Friend (3:22)
The God-Forgotten Election (3:47)
The Boss's Boots (4:55)
The Captain of the Push (6:01)
Billy's 'Square Affair' (3:49)
A Derry on a Cove (1:25)
Rise Ye! Rise Ye! (2:50)
The Ballad of Mabel Clare (5:37)
Constable M‘Carthy’s Investigations (8:02)
At the Tug-of-War (2:04)
Here's Luck (2:53)
The Men Who Come Behind (2:47)
The Days When We Went Swimming (2:00)
The Old Bark School (3:28)
Trouble on the Selection (1:35)
The Professional Wanderer (2:02)
A Little Mistake (2:54)
A Study in the 'Nood' (2:40)
A Word to Texas Jack (5:30)
The Grog-an'-Grumble Steeplechase (3:56)
But What's the Use (2:27)