the state of being a town. Does its
pride resent the impost of village that it is glad to be called
by a name which is no name, or is the word loosely appropriated
from America, where it signifies a division of a county? It is
never found in England."

1896. A. B. Paterson, `Man from Snowy River,' p. 38:

"There stands the town of Dandaloo--
A township where life's total sum
Is sleep, diversified with rum."

<hw>Traveller</hw>, <i>n</i>. used specifically for a
<i>Swagman</i>, a <i>Sundowner</i>. See quotation.

1868. Marcus Clarke, `Peripatetic Philosopher' (Reprint),
p. 41:

"At the station where I worked for some time (as
`knock-about-man') three cooks were kept during the `wallaby'
season--one for the house, one for the men, and one for the
travellers. Moreover, `travellers' would not unfrequently
spend the afternoon at one of the three hotels (which, with a
church and a pound, constituted the adjoining township), and
having `liquored up' extensively, swagger up to the station,
and insist upon lodging and food--which they got. I have no
desire to take away the character of these gentlemen
travellers, but I may mention as a strange coincidence, that,
was the requested hospitality refused by any chance, a
bush-fire invariably occurred somewhere on the run within
twelve hours."

1893. `Sydney Morning Herald,' Aug. 12, p. 8, col. 7:

"Throughout the Western pastoral area the strain of feeding the
`travellers,' which is the country euphemism for bush
unemployed, has come to be felt as an unwarranted tax upon the
industry, and as a mischievous stimulus to nomadism."

1896. `The Australasian,' Aug. 8, p. 249, col. 2:

". . . never refuses to feed travellers; they get a good tea
and breakfast, and often 10 to 20 are fed in a day. These
travellers lead an aimless life, wandering from station to
station, hardly ever asking for and never hoping to get any
work, and yet they expect the land-owners to support them. Most
of them are old and feeble, and the sooner all stations stop
giving them free rations the better it will be for the real
working man. One station-owner kept a record, and he found that
he fed over 2000 men in twelve months. This alone, at 6d. a
meal, would come to L100, but this is not all, as they `bag' as
much as they can if their next stage is not a good feeding
station."

<hw>Travellers' Grass</hw>, i.q. <i>Settler's Twine</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Tree-creeper</hw>, <i>n</i>. popular