Over the Sliprails
Shanty-keepers, swindlers and drovers: a companion volume to On the Track, including "The Shanty-Keeper's Wife".
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- In Australia
Henry Lawson (author) died in 1922. Australian copyright then lasted 50 years after the author's death, so it ended on 31 December 1972. The 2005 extension to 70 years did not revive copyright that had already expired.
- In the United States
First published in 1900. In the United States, works published before 1 January 1931 are in the public domain.
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rights.json, checked 2026-10-19. Death dates: Henry Lawson (Wikidata, ADB, catalogue). First publication: reference.
Contents
- OVER THE SLIPRAILS
- By Henry Lawson
- Author of “While the Billy Boils”, “When the World was Wide and Other Verses”, “On the Track”, “Verses: Popular and Humo
- Preface
- OVER THE SLIPRAILS
- The Shanty-Keeper's Wife
- A Gentleman Sharper and Steelman Sharper
- An Incident at Stiffner's
- The Hero of Redclay
- The Darling River
- A Case for the Oracle
- A Daughter of Maoriland
- New Year's Night
- Black Joe
- They Wait on the Wharf in Black
- Seeing the Last of You
- Two Boys at Grinder Brothers'
- The Selector's Daughter
- Mitchell on the “Sex” and Other “Problems”
- The Master's Mistake
- The Story of the Oracle
- From the original advertisements (March, 1900), books by the same author
- When the World was Wide & Other Verses
- By Henry Lawson, Author of “While the Billy Boils”.
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