Saltbush Bill's Second Fight

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Saltbush Bill's Second Fight is a humorous poem by Australian writer and poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson. It was first published in The Antipodean in 1897.[1]

Saltbush Bill was one of Paterson's best known characters who appeared in 5 poems: "Saltbush Bill" (1894), "Saltbush Bill's Second Fight" (1897), "Saltbush Bill's Gamecock" (1898), "Saltbush Bill on the Patriarchs" (1903), and "Saltbush Bill, J.P." (1905).[2]

Illustration from original publication of "Saltbush Bill's Second Fight" - Stingy Smith meets the tramp
  1. ^ Austlit - "Saltbush Bill's Second Fight" by A. B. Paterson
  2. ^ The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 2nd edition, p670