# The Exception — While the Billy Boils character guide

> The Exception in While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0040-mitchell-a-character-sketch

## Who they are

A character in a philosophical yarn.

## In the story

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

An outcast among bush outcasts, dressed in rags with one boot and one slipper, lying on a galvanized-iron case with a piece of blue blanket. He is described as brutal-faced, small-eyed, and scowling, with no attempt at mending his clothes—a sign of hopelessness.

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