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Australian Slang

daughter of one of the early Strine graziers. She was responsible, after years of bitter struggle with the authorities, for the introduction of compulsory education for sheep. She thus lit a lamp which has continued to burn steadily down the years and many of today's famous Strine sheep must be grateful to her memory. (One of the little lambs, Charles, who had followed her to school each day, eventually became an essayist and poet of considerable skill and composed the following song in memory of his sponsor: 'Mary Header little lamb; An itellectual nit. It never passed its first exam Because it couldn't sit. So Mary Header little lamb With vedgies and mint sauce. `Oh dearest lamb,' she cried, 'I am As hungry as a horse.'')