Andrew Barton Peterson

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    Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
    Under the shade of a coolibah tree;
    —Andrew Barton Peterson (1864–1941)

    Itt is verry true, as the Welchman sayd,
    Couetousness getts no gaine.
    —Unknown. Sir Andrew Barton. . .

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    [On being told that “every woman should stand with bared head before Susan B. Anthony”:] Yes, and every man as well.
    —Clara Barton (1821–1912)

    And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong,
    ‘You’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me!’
    —Andrew Barton Peterson (1864–1941)