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Page 74
... shepherd : You be hanged ! Do I look like a slouchin ' , possum - eating , billy- carrying crawler of a shepherd ? I've had a horse under me ever since I was big enough to know Jingaree mountain from a haystack , and a horse I'll have ...
... shepherd : You be hanged ! Do I look like a slouchin ' , possum - eating , billy- carrying crawler of a shepherd ? I've had a horse under me ever since I was big enough to know Jingaree mountain from a haystack , and a horse I'll have ...
Page 75
... shepherd's duties consisted of little more than to wander about with his flock by day , remaining wakeful enough to ... shepherd and hut - keeper was performed by their dogs . The life was so lazy , lonely and monotonous that many ...
... shepherd's duties consisted of little more than to wander about with his flock by day , remaining wakeful enough to ... shepherd and hut - keeper was performed by their dogs . The life was so lazy , lonely and monotonous that many ...
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... shepherd's reed — are immense ; five hundred accordions and fifty gross of the harps of Judah are considered small investments by one vessel . A shepherd has been known to walk two hundred miles from a distant station of the interior ...
... shepherd's reed — are immense ; five hundred accordions and fifty gross of the harps of Judah are considered small investments by one vessel . A shepherd has been known to walk two hundred miles from a distant station of the interior ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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