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Page 167
... Jack ' will give the flavour of Australian popular feeling towards Americans by the end of the century : Texas Jack , you are amusin ' . Great Lord Harry how I laughed When I seen your rig and saddle with its bulwarks fore and aft ...
... Jack ' will give the flavour of Australian popular feeling towards Americans by the end of the century : Texas Jack , you are amusin ' . Great Lord Harry how I laughed When I seen your rig and saddle with its bulwarks fore and aft ...
Page 168
... Jack ? As poet and as Yankee I will greet you , Texas Jack , For it isn't no ill - feelin ' that is gettin ' up my back ; But I won't see this land crowded by each Yank and British cuss Who takes it in his head to come a - civilizin ...
... Jack ? As poet and as Yankee I will greet you , Texas Jack , For it isn't no ill - feelin ' that is gettin ' up my back ; But I won't see this land crowded by each Yank and British cuss Who takes it in his head to come a - civilizin ...
Page 204
... Jack Duggan , and some Jim Doolan , and some Jack Dubbin , and some Jim Dowling ... It doesn't matter . He just was the Wild Colonial Boy ! ' . The hero's very anonymity is symp- tomatic of the collectivist ethos of the nomad tribe ...
... Jack Duggan , and some Jim Doolan , and some Jack Dubbin , and some Jim Dowling ... It doesn't matter . He just was the Wild Colonial Boy ! ' . The hero's very anonymity is symp- tomatic of the collectivist ethos of the nomad tribe ...
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