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Packhorse and Pearling Boat 123: ‘Were you scared, Dad?’ ‘Didn’t matter a tuppenny damn whether I was or whether I wasn’t.’.at not matter a tuppenny (damn), v.
Packhorse and Pearling Boat 123: ‘Were you scared, Dad?’ ‘Didn’t matter a tuppenny damn whether I was or whether I wasn’t.’. Packhorse and Pearling Boat 161: There was a young girl from the ‘Bay’ / Who was put in the family way.at Bay, the, n.
Packhorse and Pearling Boat 177: About mid-afternoon a cock-eyed Bob blew up.at cock-eye Bob, n.
Packhorse and Pearling Boat 106: Dad [...] entered into close confabulation with a bullet-headed bearded character in a flannel shirt.at bullet-headed, adj.
Packhorse and Pearling Boat 50: I floundered down [...] rubbing my eyes and demanding first look at the ‘Bully’.at Bully, n.
Packhorse and Pearling Boat 156: ‘We’ll have to go back now. We’re bushed.’ I was staggered. I’d never heard of an aboriginal being bushed, that is, lost.at bushed, adj.
Packhorse and Pearling Boat 164: Those ‘Foreshore Rats’, those ‘ten-per-cent Pearlers.’.at ten-per-cent, adj.
Packhorse and Pearling Boat 27: Champagne Charlie was [...] Australian-born but Americanized Chinese, he was the only flash Chinaman I have ever known.at charlie, n.6
Packhorse and Pearling Boat 125: Joe came in low, looking for that grip which the west coast black fellow learned from that other clean fighter, the Jap: The Christmas hold (the handful of nuts).at Christmas hold (n.) under Christmas, n.
Packhorse and Pearling Boat 161: There was a young girl from the ‘Bay’ / Who was put in the family way / By a mate off a lugger, / An ignorant (beggar) / Who always spelt ‘cuss’ with a K.at cuss, n.2
Packhorse and Pearling Boat 239: The Grizzly Bear had a yarn of some smooth-mannered, fast-talking magsman.at magsman, n.
Packhorse and Pearling Boat 157: Our mokes got a good bellyful of weedy, luke warm, but still drinkable water.at moke, n.1
Packhorse and Pearling Boat 170: If I broke it for a tenner, I’d roll my swag and swamp my way back to Queensland.at swamp, v.2
Packhorse and Pearling Boat 155: It was a reasonably cool, end-of-the-wet morning.at wet, the, n.
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