The Moods of Ginger Mick

by C. J. Dennis

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"There's a good green land awaitin' you."

THE MOODS of GINGER MICK By C.J. Dennis SYDNEY: ANGUS & ROBERTSON LTD.

THE MOODS
OF GINGER MICK

BY
C. J. DENNIS
Author of "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke," etc.

With Illustrations by Hal Gye

SYDNEY
ANGUS & ROBERTSON LTD.
89 CASTLEREAGH STREET
1916

The Author desires to acknowledge the previous publication in "The Bulletin," Sydney, of numbers III., V., VI., VII., VIII., IX., X., and XII., herein printed. The remaining verses are now published for the first time.

Copyright throughout the British Empire and in the United States of America.

Dramatic, Cinema and all other Rights are Reserved.

W. C. Penfold & Co. Ltd., Printers, 183 Pitt Street. Sydney

DEDICATED TO
THE BOYS WHO TOOK THE COUNT

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
	Jist to intrajuice me cobber, an' 'is name is Ginger Mick ...	ix
I.	DUCK AN' FOWL
	Now, when a bloke 'e cracks a bloke fer insults to a skirt ...	15
II.	WAR
	'E sez to me, "Wot's orl this flamin' war?" ...	23
III.	THE CALL OF STOUSH
	Wot price ole Ginger Mick? 'E's done a break ...	29
IV.	THE PUSH
	Becos a crook done in a prince, an' narked an Emperor ...	37
V.	SARI BAIR
	So, they've struck their streak o' trouble, an' they got it in the neck	45
VI.	GINGER'S COBBER
	"'E wears perjarmer soots an' cleans 'is teeth,"	51
VII.	THE SINGING SOLDIERS
	"When I'm sittin' in me dug-out wiv me rifle on me knees ...	61
VIII.	IN SPADGER'S LANE
	Ole Mother Moon 'oo yanks 'er beamin' dile ...	69
IX.	THE STRAIGHT GRIFFIN
	"'Eroes? Orright. You 'ave it 'ow yeh like,	77
X.	A LETTER TO THE FRONT
	I 'ave written Mick a letter in reply to one uv 'is ...	85
XI.	RABBITS
	"Ar! Gimme fights wiv foemen I kin see ..."	91
XII.	TO THE BOYS WHO TOOK THE COUNT
	See, I'm writin' to Mick as a bloke to a bloke ...	101
XIII.	THE GAME
	"Ho! the sky's as blue as blazes an' the sun is shinin' bright	109
XIV.	"A GALLANT GENTLEMAN"
	A month ago the world grew grey far me ...	117
	THE GLOSSARY	127