Triangles of Life, and other stories

by Henry Lawson

TRIANGLES OF LIFE

AND OTHER STORIES

By

HENRY LAWSON

LOTHIAN BOOK PUBLISHING CO PTY LTD

MELBOURNESYDNEY

PRINTED IN ENGLAND

Printed by Butler & Tanner, Frome and London.

The thanks of the Author are

due to The Bulletin, Sydney,

for kind permission to reprint.

CONTENTS

Triangles of Life—		page
I	The Reason	1
II	Chawlton	18
III	The Little Man with the Smile	55
Letters to Jack Cornstalk—
I	London	95
II	London	115
III	A Midland Village	127
A Long Way to Cork		150
The Ridiculous Family		154
His Mistake		165
A Child in the Dark, and a Foreign Father		168
A Romance of Three Huts		179
Drifting Apart		188
James and Maggie		200
The Hairy Man		210
The Strangers' Friend		224
Mateship		236