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A "Blackfellow" and His Family Settled Down to Farming Life

A "BLACKFELLOW" AND HIS FAMILY SETTLED DOWN TO FARMING LIFE

The man lives on a farm by Marra Creek in New South Wales, and works, for strong drink, with white men in the construction of a barrage. But look at the miserable shelter of branches and grass, in which he lives with his wife and three children. A century's intercourse with white Australians has not taught the aborigines (generally, but wrongly, called blackfellows) a better way of building