{"_id":"6a05005d0d809c6cc8692bb2","title":"Macquarie’s Mate","author":"Henry Lawson","code":"macquaries-mate","publish_year":1894,"publish_source":"Short Stories in Prose and Verse","words":1501,"image":"pub.jpg","image_alt":"Men at a bar","genres":["quirky"],"description":"Men at a bar talk of a missing man that they don’t miss at all. But someone else jumps to his defence.","blurb":"“one of you chaps, in this bar to-day, called Macquarie a scoundrel, and a loafer, and a blackguard, and—and a sneak and a liar.”","rating":3,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}