friend, And reckless he was, but he rode his course With courage up to the end, "Breaker Morant" was the name he earned, For no bucking horse could throw This Englishman who had lived and learned As much as the bushmen know. "The Breaker" is sleeping in some far place Where the Boer War heroes lie, And we'll meet no more in a steeplechase– Harry Morant and I. Ogilvie's other poems about 'The Breaker' included When The Breaker is booked for the south, H. Morant 'Breaker' leaves with S.A. Contingent, 'Glenrowan' to 'The Breaker' , and To the memory of Harry Morant (circa 1902). Tidy wrote Morant's obituary. Ogilvie and Tidy maintained a strong friendship during their lives. The poem For the honor of Old England and the glory of the game (1897) of an actual polo competition in the Parkes, New South Wales area, involving Morant and Ogilvie was not the same as Banjo Paterson's The Geebung Polo Club which was written four years earlier although surmised by some later writers. It appears one of Ogilvie's last Australian stations was Brindinyabba, New South Wales, near his first station of Belalie, between Enngonia and Hungerford, Queensland. His understanding of conservation was demonstrated circa 1900 when he berated another labourer for clearing mulga trees by saying 'Still killing Australia?'. Ogilvie pointed out the value of the plant, this at a time of the Federation Drought. One poem about New South Wales bushranger Ben Hall (1837–1865), The death of Ben Hall, has been suggested to be written not by Ogilvie. The history of Hall was certainly known to Ogilvie, the poem was published under Ogilvie's name, as well as him penning another poem, Ben Hall's stirrup irons. Collected from Australian newspapers of the preceding five years, a selection of poems within the book entitled Fair girls and gray horses was published by The Bulletin Newspapers in November 1898 and was well received as 'the most charming book of Australian verse that has yet appeared'. The book was reprinted four times by 1901 due to demand. Subsequent editions contained varying numbers of poems, and in different orders (for example the 1905 edition at fourteen thousand impressions had 95 poems and a photograph of a young Will sitting with his arms crossed, while the 1930 edition of nineteen thousand impressions had 84 poems and a photograph of Will standing beside his dog). Scottish-Australian book