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Russel Braddock Ward. work were usually performed by old hands and native - born youths . Generally speaking , the management of cattle required more skill , and was more spiced with danger and romance , than that of sheep . ' Harris ...
Russel Braddock Ward. work were usually performed by old hands and native - born youths . Generally speaking , the management of cattle required more skill , and was more spiced with danger and romance , than that of sheep . ' Harris ...
Page 107
... old hand was usually painfully clear . There is no evidence that the old ... hands ' in the colony , and they endeavour to gain this point by all manner ... old- country greenness is sure to sprout out somewhere ; perhaps , though a man's ...
... old hand was usually painfully clear . There is no evidence that the old ... hands ' in the colony , and they endeavour to gain this point by all manner ... old- country greenness is sure to sprout out somewhere ; perhaps , though a man's ...
Page 108
... old 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 ...
... old 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 ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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