The Australian LegendThis book traces the considerable influence of nomad pastoral workers, who provided the work force in the nineteenth-century outback, on the Australian outlook and way of life. |
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Page 65
... chum is fair game for anyone . Your villainous bullock - driver in the interior , when he can- not by any stratagem ... chums . His hair is shiny with grease , as are the knees of his breeches and the elbows of his jacket . He wears a ...
... chum is fair game for anyone . Your villainous bullock - driver in the interior , when he can- not by any stratagem ... chums . His hair is shiny with grease , as are the knees of his breeches and the elbows of his jacket . He wears a ...
Page 116
... chum , who was expected in that time to cultivate a mous- tache , and to wear a dirty , cabbage - tree hat . ' On the goldfields the first arrivals from overseas met a higher proportion of old hands than they would have done in or near ...
... chum , who was expected in that time to cultivate a mous- tache , and to wear a dirty , cabbage - tree hat . ' On the goldfields the first arrivals from overseas met a higher proportion of old hands than they would have done in or near ...
Page 128
... chum ' swells ' . The following anecdote illustrates how naturally the old hands ' hatred of policemen was passed on to many new chums . When gold was first discovered at Ballarat , an old Sydney - side ex- convict named Jack was ...
... chum ' swells ' . The following anecdote illustrates how naturally the old hands ' hatred of policemen was passed on to many new chums . When gold was first discovered at Ballarat , an old Sydney - side ex- convict named Jack was ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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