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From: Lesley Albertson <>
Subject: [DK] Tramper - traveller?
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 19:34:06 +1100
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Hej Ian and all,

A traveller, maybe? My father, when he needed to stock up the lolly
counter or whatever, would get into earnest discussions with *the
traveller*.

He would be a guy who drove up in a big van and parked outside the Astra
milk bar in Julia Street. And my father would collect the goods and
place the next order - and just *occasionally* he would get something
"on the side".

Devondale cider, I remember. Wicked stuff that came in brown bottles
from Tasmania, and sat in our Cool Room ... alongside the non-alcoholic
stuff, which we were permitted to sell.

Errr! Glad those days are past ;-))

Cheers,


Lesley
(Melbourne, Australia ... where it looks distinctly *wintry* now)

> I doubt it!
>
> Generically he would be a hawker, but more usually called "the brushman".
>
> A tramp is what was, and may still be, called a bum in North America!
>
> In New Zealand a tramper is a person who goes backpacking on backcountry
> tracks (trails in North American English).
>
> Oh the subtleties of the English language!
>
> Ian Westergaard
> In Cloudy & Warm Central Otago
> New Zealand

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