RIO GRANDE'S LAST RACE
AND OTHER VERSES

by A. B. Paterson

Original 1902 Sydney edition

The verses in this collection have appeared in papers in various parts
of the world—"Rio Grande" in London; most of the war verses
in Bloemfontein; others in Sydney.
A. B. Paterson.

CONTENTS

Contents with First Lines

RIO GRANDE'S LAST RACE AND OTHER VERSES

Rio Grande's Last Race

By the Grey Gulf-water

With the Cattle

Mulga Bill's Bicycle

The Pearl Diver

The City of Dreadful Thirst

Saltbush Bill's Gamecock

Hay and Hell and Booligal

A Walgett Episode

Father Riley's Horse

The Scotch Engineer

Song of the Future

Anthony Considine

Song of the Artesian Water

A Disqualified Jockey's Story

The Road to Gundagai

Saltbush Bill's Second Fight

Hard Luck

Song of the Federation

The Old Australian Ways

The Ballad of the 'Calliope'

Do They Know

The Passing of Gundagai

The Wargeilah Handicap

Any Other Time

The Last Trump

Tar and Feathers

It's Grand

Out of Sight

The Road to Old Man's Town

The Old Timer's Steeplechase

In the Stable

"He Giveth His Beloved Sleep"

Driver Smith

There's Another Blessed Horse Fell Down

On the Trek

The Last Parade

With French to Kimberley