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This area was the general meeting place for all the Aboriginal workers who had some time to spare. The house girls took their smoko or lunch there and were soon joined by everyone else who′d stopped work after the smoko or lunchtime bell.

Go to the gates of Bourdeaux, trumpeter: Summon their general unto the wall.

Ugh! An inventor, eh? Nix! He's not an inventor himself, but he antes-up for 'em.