Decorated with watercolours and sketches by S T Gill Henry Lawson's works expressed the essential qualities of a nation, and nowhere is this more evident that in his humorous stories. In this definitive collection of Lawson at his humorous best, we meet a whole gallery of characters - the drover, the swaggie, the bush philosopher, the larrikin, the digger, the confidence man - all revealing a typically Australian brand of humour.