[Editor: This illustration, drawn by Frank P. Mahony, was published in Verses Popular and Humorous, 1900. Henry Lawson is pictured in the foreground, with his “literary friend” reading and smoking in the background.] [My Literary Friend] “Once I wrote a little poem which I thought was very fine, And I showed the printer’s copy to […]

[Editor: This illustration, drawn by Frank P. Mahony, was published in Verses Popular and Humorous, 1900.] [The Lights of Cobb and Co.] “A hundred miles shall see to-night the lights of Cobb and Co.!” Source: Henry Lawson. Verses Popular and Humorous, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1900, page iii (title page)

[Editor: This illustration of Henry Lawson, drawn by Frank P. Mahony, was published in Verses Popular and Humorous, 1900.] [Portrait of the Author] Source: Henry Lawson. Verses Popular and Humorous, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1900, page ii (opposite title page)