THE CITY OF SYDNEY. 



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More noticeable still, perhaps, are the contrasts among those who buy and sell and 

 do the work of the Markets. The old porter sitting upon his hand-barrow wears his 

 moleskins and checked cotton shirt as in the days of regulations. If Christmas now 

 brings more grog and tobacco, Christmas is welcome to him; but he would not chan-e 

 the order of his attire for Christmas, or for any other flic day ; and almost as stanch 

 to old traditions is the 

 portly and prosperous man 

 who has kept a stall and 

 sold garden - produce for 

 forty years, has kept also 

 his old cut of coat, his old 

 watch-chain with seals, and 



A PARRAMATTA ORANGE GROVE. 



his old contempt for things new-fangled or un-English. But the sons and grandsons of 

 the earlier generation have taken other views and other forms ; the climate has had an 

 effect on them in physiognomy, in physique and in tastes. The youth from the farms 

 and market-gardens are mostly tall and slim, somewhat lank-limbed, sunburnt, often dark- 

 haired and dark-eyed ; they contrast well with their oranges, their melons and their 

 grapes ; their taste for rich colours comes naturally in a land where so much is richly- 

 coloured. The silk veils on their soft felt hats are frequently bright blue or green ; they 

 twist crimson sashes around their waists ; they are addicted to gorgeous cravats, and 

 lounge about their stalls or carts as though the dolcc far nicntc were a familiar experience ; 



