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driving are demanded. That, again, was eventually 

 ousted by the railway-train, which almost supplants the 

 bullock-driver, save for short journeys.* 



The subject may be summed up, and its philosophy 

 stated, by describing the bullock-driver as an offshoot 

 of the stockman and a special variety of that type. 

 He disappears with the bullock-team, which was his 

 incarnation in an animal-form, and he almost dies out 

 with the pioneering phase. 



* A. C. Grant, Bush Life in Queensland, chs. iv. v, ; Ernest 

 Favenc, in the Sydney Morning Herald ; Edward Palmer, 

 Early Days in Northern Queensland ; and station-literature 

 generally. 



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