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 132
... shearing - board before I chanced to go , Saw eight or ten dashed Chinamen all shearing in a row . Chorus : It was shift , boys , shift , there was not the slightest doubt It was time to make a shift with leprosy about . So I saddled up ...
... shearing - board before I chanced to go , Saw eight or ten dashed Chinamen all shearing in a row . Chorus : It was shift , boys , shift , there was not the slightest doubt It was time to make a shift with leprosy about . So I saddled up ...
Page 182
... shearing sheds , at musterers ' camps or on the roads where most of the real work of the pastoral world was carried on . For instance , at Avoca Station near Wentworth in the 1890's there were three or four female servants in the house ...
... shearing sheds , at musterers ' camps or on the roads where most of the real work of the pastoral world was carried on . For instance , at Avoca Station near Wentworth in the 1890's there were three or four female servants in the house ...
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... shearing in the season when work is avail- able . Thus ' Three Little Johnny Cakes ' , after describing the sweets of a whaler's life , ends with the stanza : When the shearing time commences I'm in me glory then 192 THE AUSTRALIAN LEGEND.
... shearing in the season when work is avail- able . Thus ' Three Little Johnny Cakes ' , after describing the sweets of a whaler's life , ends with the stanza : When the shearing time commences I'm in me glory then 192 THE AUSTRALIAN LEGEND.
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