the flower. Hence the colonial designation of
Jack in a box."

<hw>Jack the Painter</hw>, <i>n</i>. very strong bush-tea, so
called from the mark it leaves round the drinker's mouth.

1855. G. C. Mundy, `Our Antipodes,' p. 163:

"Another notorious ration tea of the bush is called Jack the
Painter--a very green tea indeed, its viridity evidently
produced by a discreet use of the copper drying-pans in its
manufacture."

1878. `The Australian,' vol. i. p. 418:

"The billy wins, and `Jack the Painter' tea
Steams on the hob, from aught like fragrance free."

1880. Garnet Walch, `Victoria in 1880,' p. 113

"Special huts had to be provided for them [the sundowners],
where they enjoyed eleemosynary rations of mutton, damper,
and `Jack the Painter.'"

<hw>Jackaroo</hw>, <i>n</i>. a name for a Colonial Experience
(q.v.), a young man fresh from England, learning squatting;
called in New Zealand a Cadet (q.v.). Compare the American
"tenderfoot." A verse definition runs:

"To do all sorts and kinds of jobs,
Help all the men Jacks, Bills or Bobs,
As well as he is able.
To be neither boss, overseer, nor man,
But a little of all as well as he can,
And eat at the master's table."

The word is generally supposed to be a corruption (in imitation
of the word Kangaroo) of the words "Johnny Raw." Mr. Meston,
in the `Sydney Bulletin,' April 18, 1896, says it comes from
the old Brisbane blacks, who called the pied crow shrike
(<i>Strepera graculina</i>) "tchaceroo," a gabbling and
garrulous bird. They called the German missionaries of 1838
"jackeroo," a gabbler, because they were always talking.
Afterwards they applied it to all white men.

1880. W. Senior, `Travel and Trout,' p. 19:

"Jackaroos--the name given to young gentlemen newly arrived
from home to gather colonial experiences."

1881. A. C. Grant `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i.
p. 53:

"The young jackaroo woke early next morning."

[Footnote]: "The name by which young men who go to the
Australian colonies to pick up colonial experience are
designated."

1885. H. Finch-Hatton, `Advance Australia,' p. 85:

"Of course before starting on their own account to work a
station they go into the bush to gain colonial experience,
during which process they are known in the colony as
`jackaroos.'"

1891. Rolf Boldrewood, `A Sydneyside Saxon,' p. 74:

"We went most of the way by rail and coach, and then a
jackaroo met us with a fine pair