Digger Smith
The Sentimental Bloke, now a farmer, meets a returned soldier: Dennis's verse story of coming home from the Great War. Text only: Hal Gye's illustrations are not included.
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About 11,534 words · roughly 0.8 hours of reading (short) · 4 sections online · In: Bush poetry
Why this is free
- In Australia
C. J. Dennis (author) died in 1938. Australian copyright then lasted 50 years after the author's death, so it ended on 31 December 1988. The 2005 extension to 70 years did not revive copyright that had already expired.
- In the United States
First published in 1918. In the United States, works published before 1 January 1931 are in the public domain.
- Our text
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Derived from the volunteer transcription published as Project Gutenberg eBook #15524 (public domain in the US). We removed that project's header, footer, licence and trademark text, producer notes and all images, then re-packaged the text. This edition is not affiliated with or endorsed by that project. Our thanks to its volunteers.
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- Rights record
rights.json, checked 2026-10-19. Death dates: C. J. Dennis (Wikidata, ADB, catalogue). First publication: reference.
Contents
- DIGGER SMITH
- by
- C. J. Dennis
- Illustrated by
- Hal Gye
- 1918
- (rev. 1919)
- TO THE A.I.F.
- CONTENTS
- I. BEFORE THE WAR
- Before the War
- II. DUMMY BRIDGE
- Dummy Bridge
- III. DAD
- Dad
- IV. DIGGER SMITH
- Digger Smith
- V. WEST
- West
- VI. OVER THE FENCE
- Over the Fence
- VII. A DIGGER'S TALE
- A Digger's Tale
- VIII. JIM'S GIRL
- Jim's Girl
- IX. THE BOYS OUT THERE
- The Boys Out There
- X. HALF A MAN
- Half a Man
- XI. SAWIN' WOOD
- Sawin' Wood
- XII. JIM
- Jim
- XIII. A SQUARE DEAL
- A Square Deal
- GLOSSARY
