# Pat Martin — While the Billy Boils character guide

> Pat Martin in While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Pat, Paddy Somebody, Paddy

**First appearance:** 0044-the-story-of-malachi

## Who they are

An Irish bushman and mate.

## In the story

### [Stragglers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/while_the_billy_boils_se/chapters/stragglers)

A man who finds an old pair of pants in the scrub and debates whether to swap them for his own, weighing the weight of his swag against the condition of the trousers.

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