A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 173
... Henry Lawson , slipped out in the dark and cried his eyes out behind the pigsty , till a mongrel black dog , one of those great comforters for sensitive bush boys , consoled him ' with slobbery sympathy ' . The boy became so lonely and ...
... Henry Lawson , slipped out in the dark and cried his eyes out behind the pigsty , till a mongrel black dog , one of those great comforters for sensitive bush boys , consoled him ' with slobbery sympathy ' . The boy became so lonely and ...
Page 287
... Henry Lawson a picture of the world not unlike the picture the parson might have painted had the Public Education Act of 1366 left him with the same power over the minds of children in country districts . Heaven , for the young Henry ...
... Henry Lawson a picture of the world not unlike the picture the parson might have painted had the Public Education Act of 1366 left him with the same power over the minds of children in country districts . Heaven , for the young Henry ...
Page 347
... Henry Lawson and Steele Rudd . He was the grandson of that J. B. Darvall who in the 1850s had testified in public to his hopes that the government of New South Wales would always be conducted by ' gentlemen ' and not the vulgar ...
... Henry Lawson and Steele Rudd . He was the grandson of that J. B. Darvall who in the 1850s had testified in public to his hopes that the government of New South Wales would always be conducted by ' gentlemen ' and not the vulgar ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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