Show Word Has Changed Meaning Bushranger onto a respectable term has now sunk to tho lowest depths In the early Australian newspapers news-papers such advertisements as Wanted Want-ed a good bunhrnuger were mite common The word then was synonymous synony-mous with bushman one skilled In knowledge and experience of bush life But now a good bushranger wviild bo as ridiculous as an honest hurular far n bushranger Is the superlatively bad man of tho antipodes hank robber a despoiler of gold escort nnd mall coaches and the terror of the countryside until ho Is captures or shot I |