The Australian Legend"This book attempts to trace the historical origins and development of the Australian legend or national mystique. It argues that a specifically Australian outlook grew up first and most clearly among the bush workers in the Australian pastoral industry, and that this group has had an influence, completely disproportionate to its numerical and economic strength, on the attitudes of the whole Australian community."--Foreword |
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Page 80
... shepherd : You be hanged ! Do I look like a slouchin ' , possum - eating , billy- carrying crawler of a shepherd ? I've had a horse under me ever since I was big enough to know Jingaree mountain from a haystack , and a horse I'll have ...
... shepherd : You be hanged ! Do I look like a slouchin ' , possum - eating , billy- carrying crawler of a shepherd ? I've had a horse under me ever since I was big enough to know Jingaree mountain from a haystack , and a horse I'll have ...
Page 101
... shepherds and hut - keepers were rarely paid more than £ 25 a year plus rations . More highly skilled bush - workers ... shepherd who saved every penny of his wages would have been able to buy his own ' block ' after seven years , for ...
... shepherds and hut - keepers were rarely paid more than £ 25 a year plus rations . More highly skilled bush - workers ... shepherd who saved every penny of his wages would have been able to buy his own ' block ' after seven years , for ...
Page 104
... shepherd's reed — are immense ; five hundred accordions and fifty gross of the harps of Judah are considered small investments by one vessel . A shepherd has been known to walk two hundred miles from a distant station of the interior ...
... shepherd's reed — are immense ; five hundred accordions and fifty gross of the harps of Judah are considered small investments by one vessel . A shepherd has been known to walk two hundred miles from a distant station of the interior ...
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