Andy's Gone with Cattle

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"Andy's Gone with Cattle"
by Henry Lawson
Written1888
First published inThe Australian Town & Country Journal
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Publication date13 October 1888 (1888-10-13)
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Andy's Gone With Cattle is a poem by Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. It was first published in The Australian Town & Country Journal on 13 October 1888. [1]

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The "Andy" of this poem re-appeared in a sequel, "Andy's Return", which was published in the same journal some six weeks later. [2]

Critical reception

The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states: "[the poem] laments the departure of a member of a selection family to go overlanding cattle." [3]

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