CHAFFING A "NEW CHUM."
In the "back blocks" of Australia new arrivals are considered the legitimate butti of every joke that can be played on thern. A coachdriver, backed up by his pruwoii. gers, induced a young man newly armed from England to believe that kat>K«rooi were now used in that district as letter* carriers. "They meet the coach," he said, "and I give them their masters' letter*, which they put in their pouches and cfcrry home." " I The "new-chum" was incredulous, but just then a great kangaroo hopped on U the roadway right in front of them, aac stood for a moment looking at t*e «*■ vancing coach. " Nothing for you to-4s&\'' shouted the driver, and the axmnal, tsss* ing, disappeared an the scrub from wluft it had come. | The young Englishman is full of wwAq at the strides made in bo young a wm*t as Australia.
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Golden Bay Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 50, 12 May 1910, Page 3
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147CHAFFING A "NEW CHUM." Golden Bay Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 50, 12 May 1910, Page 3
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