Introduction
Christopher Lee

Joe Wilson and His Mates
Prefatory verses – the author’s farewell to the bushmen

Part 1
Joe Wilson’s courtship
Brighten’s sister-in-law
‘Water them geraniums’:
— 1. A lonely track
— 2. ‘Past carin’’
A double buggy at Lahey’s Creek:
— 1. Spuds, and a woman’s obstinacy
— 2. Joe Wilson’s luck
— 3. The ghost of Mary’s sacrifice
The buggy comes home
The writer wants to say a word

Part 2
The golden graveyard
The Chinaman’s ghost
The loaded dog
Poisonous Jimmy gets left:
— 1. Dave Regan’s yarn
— 2. Told by one of the other drovers
The ghostly door
A wild Irishman
The babies in the bush
A bush dance
The buckjumper
Jimmy Grimshaw’s wooing
At Dead Dingo
Telling Mrs Baker
A hero in Dingo-Scrubs
The little world left behind
Concluding verses: ‘the never-never country’

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