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Andy's Gone with Cattle

"Andy's Gone with Cattle" 
by Henry Lawson
Written 1888
First published in The Australian Town & Country Journal
Country Australia
Language English
Publication date 13 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.

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

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


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