Hard backed with dust jacket. In as new condition except for barely discernible mark near bar code on back dust jacket. First edition published 1987 Angus & Robertson.For generations of readers, Henry Lawson has been the most Australian of Australian writers. His works expressed the essential qualities of a nation and nowhere is this more evident than in his humorous stories. In this collection we meet a whole gallery of characters, the swaggie, the drover, the bush philosopher, the larrikin, the digger, the con man, all revealing a typically Australian brand of humour. Cover photo shows sun dappling only.