Hits Skits And Jingles

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Pollard Publishing
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 1972
Edition: First Edition

Description: 197 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "Hits! Skits! and Jingles! is the best known work of W.T. Goodge, who was born in London in 1862 and died in Sydney in 1909. It contains many famous verses, including "Ode To The Frying Pan", "A Genuine Bush Song", "Dan the Bullocky", "The Ozzlum Bird", "Praying For Rain" and "The Great Australian Adjective". Hits! Skits! and Jingles! was first published in 1904 and it has attracted the attention of students of Australian verse ever since. Goodge, son of a London law courts clerk, worked his passage to Australia in The Cathay at the age of 18. He left the ship at Sydney and took a job on one of Cobb & Cos properties, Windagee Station in western NSW. He contributed verses to the Dubbo Express and later took a job as a reporter and writer of verse for The Lithgow Mercury. After working for a spell in Sydney and then as editor of The Orange Leader, Goodge began freelancing for various papers. He was a prolific writer. Many of his columns included "skits" on spot or politics. He died suddenly at 47."

ISBN: 0909950210