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The Complete Book of Australian Folk Lord choose

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[Aus] B. Scott Complete Bk Aus. Folk Lore 380: A Burketown mosquito net is a bottle of rum and a cowdung fire [AND].
at Burketown mosquito net, n.
[Aus] B. Scott Complete Bk Aus. Folk Lore 64: If you do join the Joeys, I hope you’ll be shot. I’d shoot the hull blessed lot of ’em if I had my way.
at joey, n.1
[Aus] B. Scott Complete Bk Aus. Folk Lore 239: Not that any crayfisherman would refer to an octopus by its right name. An octopus is merely an ocky, more than one are ockies.
at ocky, n.
[Aus] B. Scott Complete Bk Aus. Folk Lore 19: These were the selectors, the stringybark cockatoos, the failed goldseekers turned settlers, battling it out on the thin edge of survival.
at stringybark cockatoo (n.) under stringybark, adj.
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