Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer". He was the son of the poet, publisher and feminist Louisa Lawson.
“Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.”
The Ridiculous Family, from Triangles of Life and Other Stories (1913)
His Mistake, from Triangles of Life and Other Stories (1913)
Source: A Neglected History (1887)
