A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 345
... Lawson remembered fondly the goings - on in the big back kitchen of Granny Matthews at Gulgong on a Saturday night when the men took copious swigs from the big black bottle , and wiped their mouths with the backs of their hands , and ...
... Lawson remembered fondly the goings - on in the big back kitchen of Granny Matthews at Gulgong on a Saturday night when the men took copious swigs from the big black bottle , and wiped their mouths with the backs of their hands , and ...
Page 347
... Lawson placed between themselves and death . What depressed Lawson , Paterson found uplifting . Lawson had seen the plains of the western lands of New South Wales very much as John Oxley , Thomas Mitchell and Charles Sturt had seen them ...
... Lawson placed between themselves and death . What depressed Lawson , Paterson found uplifting . Lawson had seen the plains of the western lands of New South Wales very much as John Oxley , Thomas Mitchell and Charles Sturt had seen them ...
Page 348
... Lawson's sensibilities . Lawson's eyes moistened at the sight of a giraffe of a man sending round the hat at Bourke on behalf of some Sydney tarts who were being drummed out of town by the Mother Grundys of the outback . Lawson's eyes ...
... Lawson's sensibilities . Lawson's eyes moistened at the sight of a giraffe of a man sending round the hat at Bourke on behalf of some Sydney tarts who were being drummed out of town by the Mother Grundys of the outback . Lawson's eyes ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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