Swagman
A swagman is an old Australian term describing an underclass of transient temporary workers, particularly during the depression of the 1890s and the Great Depression of the 1930s (though, in much of Australia the 1890's depression was far worse).Unemployed men (they were mostly single men) travelled the rural areas of Australia, their few meagre possessions rolled up and carried with their "swag" (a primitive bed) over their shoulder. Typically, they would seek work in farms and towns they travelled through, and in many cases the farmers, if no permanent work was available, would often provide food and shelter in return for some menial task.
The swagman remains famous through the song Waltzing Matilda, by Banjo Patterson, which details a swagman who turns to stealing a sheep from the local squatter.
It is said that she
French law for the sale of the property; nevertheless the Count gained
his fortune, and that somewhere or other there would be a little bunch
notary, or perhaps at the bank, or in some safe hiding-place.
must of necessity have some kind of document in his possession by
son.
"So she made up her mind.html">mind to keep the strictest possible watch.html">watch over the
was submitted to this feminine espionage. All day she sat in the salon
that he uttered, every least movement that he made. She had a bed put
was entirely in her interests. Such wifely devotion seemed
care to disguise M. de Restaud's repugnance for her, and feigned
laced women were even found to say that she had expiated her sins.
follow on the Count's death.html">death.html">death if her presence of mind should fail her;
husband.html">husband lay and groaned, had drawn a charmed circle round about it. So
apparently devoted wife was lying in wait for death and opportunity;
the watch for the prey that cannot escape, listening to the fall of
maternal sentiment to the last degree. Her father's death had been a
young that she could hide the disorders of her life.html">life from their eyes,
brilliant education. I confess that I cannot help admiring her and
that time she had discovered Maxime's baseness, and was expiating the
the measures which she took for regaining control of her husband's
repair the wrongs she had done her children? And again, it may be,
felt a longing to lead a virtuous life again. Perhaps she only.
On
wordlookup.net
All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
It uses material from the wikipedia.
|
|