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... Currency Lads tended to align themselves with the emancipist class rather than with the more respectable of the free immigrants.3 If we take the Currency population as having more in common , socially and traditionally , with the ...
... Currency Lads tended to align themselves with the emancipist class rather than with the more respectable of the free immigrants.3 If we take the Currency population as having more in common , socially and traditionally , with the ...
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... Currency Lads call it abroad and this is our home.'27 This story , however , probably shows a greater degree of ... Currency Lad , Charlie , are driving some cattle along a bush track when they see a young magistrate and two mounted ...
... Currency Lads call it abroad and this is our home.'27 This story , however , probably shows a greater degree of ... Currency Lad , Charlie , are driving some cattle along a bush track when they see a young magistrate and two mounted ...
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... currency lads ' ; these young men perform in an excellent style , and on public festi- vals they willingly offer their services . The Currency feeling of scorn for new chums , who were so obviously not at home in Australia , is again ...
... currency lads ' ; these young men perform in an excellent style , and on public festi- vals they willingly offer their services . The Currency feeling of scorn for new chums , who were so obviously not at home in Australia , is again ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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