[Editor: This is a poem from Beyond the City Gates: Australian Story & Verse (1923) by Jack Moses.] Lock the Lachlan Billo Jones once said to me, “Now wouldn’t it be grand If they’d only lock the Lachlan and irrigate the land. They have the soil and climate, and the … [Read more...] about Lock the Lachlan [poem by Jack Moses]
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The bigness of Larry Logan [short story by Jack Moses]
[Editor: This is a short story from Beyond the City Gates: Australian Story & Verse (1923) by Jack Moses.] The bigness of Larry Logan How Larry Logan came to be dubbed “Lucky Larry” is not known to many, but, maybe, there are some, in scattered spots, who know the … [Read more...] about The bigness of Larry Logan [short story by Jack Moses]
Pinched wheat [short story by Jack Moses]
[Editor: This is a short story from Beyond the City Gates: Australian Story & Verse (1923) by Jack Moses.] Pinched wheat Ikey Isaacs and his brother Abey saw wonderful possibilities in the Poultry Industry, and thus it was that on their adjoining properties were … [Read more...] about Pinched wheat [short story by Jack Moses]
The Thing that Keeps the Bailiff Out [poem by Jack Moses]
[Editor: This is a poem from Beyond the City Gates: Australian Story & Verse (1923) by Jack Moses.] The Thing that Keeps the Bailiff Out There’s lots of things we could do without, If we only knew the way. We could do without the angry frown, And the bitter things we … [Read more...] about The Thing that Keeps the Bailiff Out [poem by Jack Moses]
Interviewing His Excellency [short story by Jack Moses]
[Editor: This is a short story from Beyond the City Gates: Australian Story & Verse (1923) by Jack Moses.] Interviewing His Excellency In all my long and happy association with the Wattle Flat Annual Exhibition, it has never been my good fortune to fraternise at the … [Read more...] about Interviewing His Excellency [short story by Jack Moses]
Along the Castlereagh [poem by Jack Moses]
[Editor: This is a poem from Beyond the City Gates: Australian Story & Verse (1923) by Jack Moses.] Along the Castlereagh Now, this Coonamble fountain, that’s dripping in the park, Came it in commemoration or put there for a lark? A weird and plucky struggle to show the … [Read more...] about Along the Castlereagh [poem by Jack Moses]
Snifter the outlaw [short story by Jack Moses]
[Editor: This is a short story from Beyond the City Gates: Australian Story & Verse (1923) by Jack Moses.] Snifter the outlaw Queensland bred Snifter, and Queensland was proud of Snifter. Snifter was a good upstanding neddy, and could buck a treat; that’s when Clinker … [Read more...] about Snifter the outlaw [short story by Jack Moses]
Dinny of Dennisvale [short story by Jack Moses]
[Editor: This is a short story from Beyond the City Gates: Australian Story & Verse (1923) by Jack Moses.] Dinny of Dennisvale Dinny was not a bad old sort. Dinny kept the Shamrock Arms at Dennisvale, and many a down-and-out found a knife-and-fork and a plateful of … [Read more...] about Dinny of Dennisvale [short story by Jack Moses]
Nimbin [poem by Jack Moses]
[Editor: This is a poem from Beyond the City Gates: Australian Story & Verse (1923) by Jack Moses.] Nimbin (Nimbin is an agricultural centre twenty-one miles from Lismore, on the Richmond.) I can’t forget you, Nimbin; You charm me like a book, The cattle in your … [Read more...] about Nimbin [poem by Jack Moses]
Jindalee [poem by Jack Moses]
[Editor: This is a poem from Beyond the City Gates: Australian Story & Verse (1923) by Jack Moses.] Jindalee I’m going home to Jindalee, The sweetest spot on earth to me; The moon and stars shine brighter there, Than I have seen them anywhere. The fleecy clouds … [Read more...] about Jindalee [poem by Jack Moses]