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" Freemen find so many ways of making money here, that they will not take service ; and so the convicts, or, as they are delicately called,  "
The journal of a voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen's Land, from original ... - Page 50
by mrs. Augustus Prinsep - 1833 - 117 pages
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The National standard, of literature, science, music [&c.] ed. by ..., Volume 1

Frederick William N. Bayley - 1833 - 902 pages
...though three in number, could not undertake the household. Free men find so many means of making mooey here, that they will not take service, and so the...demands of this nature ; and if the histories of every IMMUC were made public, you would shudder. Even in our small menage our cook ha» committed murder,...
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A Lecture on South Australia: Including Letters from J.B. Hack, Esq., and ...

Henry Watson - South Australia - 1838 - 44 pages
...extract from Prin . s<?pp's delightful Letters from Van Dieman's Land. " Freemen find so many ways of making money here, that they will not take service,...public, you would shudder: even in our small menage, очг cook has com. mittcd murder, our footman burglary, and our housemaid bigamy!" The state 'of...
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The Land of Promise: Being an Authentic and Impartial History of the Rise ...

John Stephens - South Australia - 1839 - 262 pages
...extract from Prinsepp's delightful Letters from Van Diemen's Land : — " Freemen find so many ways of making money here, that they will not take service...every house were made public, you would shudder; even incur small menage, our cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and our housemaid bigamy!"...
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The History of the Rise and Progress of the New British Province of South ...

John Stephens - South Australia - 1839 - 268 pages
...extract from Prinsepp's delightful Letters from Van Diemeu's Land : — " Freemen find so many ways of making money here, that they will not take service...this nature ; and if the histories of every house wefe made public, you would shudder; even in our small menage, our cook has committed murder, our footman...
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The Land of Promise: Being an Authentic and Impartial History of the Rise ...

John Stephens - South Australia - 1839 - 266 pages
...or, as they arc delicately railed, ' the prisoners,' supply nil demands of this rature ; nnd if thu histories of every house were made public, you would shudder; even in our «null menagn, our cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and our housemaid bigamy !"' The...
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A Backward Glance: The Story of John Ridley, a Pioneer

Annie E. Ridley - Harvesting machinery - 1904 - 502 pages
...that period from Van Diemen's Land, where we find that " Free men find so many ways of making money that they will not take service; and so the convicts,...were made public you would shudder. Even in our small mtnage the cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and our housemaid bigamy." It was of course...
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