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... write most of the Newgate ballads now for the printers in the Dials , and indeed , anything that turns up . I get a shilling for a copy of verses written by the wretched culprit the night previous to his execution ' . I did the helegy ...
... write most of the Newgate ballads now for the printers in the Dials , and indeed , anything that turns up . I get a shilling for a copy of verses written by the wretched culprit the night previous to his execution ' . I did the helegy ...
Page 46
... writes : The Scots farmers . represent the middle - class immigrants who came to Australia . They were the men who came with varying amounts of capital . . . . In . . . the Victorian Western District , no less than two - thirds were of ...
... writes : The Scots farmers . represent the middle - class immigrants who came to Australia . They were the men who came with varying amounts of capital . . . . In . . . the Victorian Western District , no less than two - thirds were of ...
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... writes , as though it were the usual thing , of a large group of stockmen who were nearly all ex - convicts , and Hay- garth testifies to the skill and prestige of native - born stockmen . Of cattle - mustering he writes : • • ... our ...
... writes , as though it were the usual thing , of a large group of stockmen who were nearly all ex - convicts , and Hay- garth testifies to the skill and prestige of native - born stockmen . Of cattle - mustering he writes : • • ... our ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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A. B. Paterson Aborigines American attitude Australian national ballads become Ben Hall Britain British Bulletin bullock-drivers bush-workers bushman bushrangers cabbage-tree hat cattle chum collectivist colonists colony contemporary criminals Currency Lads Diemen's Land diggers diggings districts Donahoo early economic emancipists Emigrant England English ethos fact feeling free immigrants frontier Furphy Gold Rush goldfields Harris History influence interior Irish Jack John labour less Library of Victoria living London masters mates mateship Melbourne middle-class Mundy native native-born Ned Kelly never nineteenth century noble frontiersman noble savage nomad tribe Norfolk Island old hands outback outlook pastoral workers perhaps period Plains police political popular population prisoners Queensland sentiment Settlers and Convicts shearers shearing sheep shepherd social society South Wales squatters stanza station swagman Sydney tended tradition tralia Transportation Turner typical up-country Van Diemen's Land Victoria W. C. Wentworth working-class writes wrote