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... chum ; so is everyone indeed . How I , who had pretty well run the gauntlet of London life , was branded and fleeced during the first three months of my residence in Sydney ! A new - chum is fair game for anyone . Your villainous ...
... chum ; so is everyone indeed . How I , who had pretty well run the gauntlet of London life , was branded and fleeced during the first three months of my residence in Sydney ! A new - chum is fair game for anyone . Your villainous ...
Page 108
... 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 ...
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... chum— Thatcher also devotes many songs to what was perhaps the most prominent feature of the diggers ' ethos : their hatred for the police . Practically every contemporary writer stresses this feature of gold- fields life , and even the ...
... chum— Thatcher also devotes many songs to what was perhaps the most prominent feature of the diggers ' ethos : their hatred for the police . Practically every contemporary writer stresses this feature of gold- fields life , and even the ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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