Saltbush Bill's Gamecock is a humorous poem by Australian writer and poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson.
It was first published in Brooks's Australian Xmas Annual Volume 1 1898.
[2] Saltbush Bill is again droving his sheep when he happens "on Take 'Em Down, the station of Rooster Hall."
Rooster Hall is a follower of cockfighting and Bill challenges him to a contest: his Australian bird against Hall's, a "clipt and a shaven cock, the pride of his English Game".
But Bill has a trick up his sleeve and wins the contest by forfeit.