Below and On Top (1898) is a collection of short stories by Australian writer Edward Dyson.
[1] The collection includes 24 stories by the author, from a variety of original sources; mainly The Bulletin, The Argus, Melbourne Punch, The Antipodean and Cosmos.
[1] A writer in The Herald stated: "Mr Dyson has unquestionably the happy knack of describing in crisp and attractive style the scenes of daily life in tlie bush and in the township.
"[2] Writing about the book in a piece in 1954 for The Bulletin magazine Norman Lindsay noted: "Much of the best literature springs from a lack of literary consciousness, and Below and On Top is from that genesis.
They generate, I suspect, from Tom Sawyer...The lasting quality of Below and On Top is in the mining stories, headed by 'The Golden Shanty,' which would be a classic in whatever country it was written.