[Editor: A poem about the leader of a street gang. Published in The West Australian Sunday Times, 24 September 1899.] Bill Bludger — My Oath! Bill Bludger was the gamest bloke That ever donned a mitten, And though ’twas said in Waterloo He’d flattened out a Chow or two, He wouldn’t harm a kitten — […]
The Bastard from the Bush [poem, circa 1900]
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[Editor: This is an anonymously-authored bawdy rhyme, apparently from the early 1900s (or possibly the late 1890s). Some have attributed it to Henry Lawson; however, it is doubtful that he would be the author, given his reported aversion to swearing. The attribution to Lawson is likely to have arisen from the fact that the poem […]
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