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the brightest hopes of reach the  most extravagant  enchanting dreams  of  about returning to Australia with their heroes, not in "the love-in-the cottage fashion"; that is too unpretentious; it is to be live  or  on a station, covered with millions of sheep, littered with nuggets of gold, & adorned with  prize cattle & spirited horses.  One of the  A damsels  also cherised such  this fond  a foolish dream  ascest  as this, on learning that I came from Brisbane, feverishly inquired if I knew where Woollongabba was,  &  when I informed her that I had a slight knowledge of that locality, she voraciously exclaimed "my Aussie boy has a station there".

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