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When, as sometimes happens, a fossicker comes in with a “shammy” full of gold, and lays himself out to make himself and every one else happy, then indeed the hotel-keeper's harvest is a rich one.

From Spinifex and Sand by Carnegie, David Wynford

The fossicker had rabbits for breakfast until he got sick of them, and then he used to swap them with a butcher for meat.

From On the Track by Lawson, Henry

And now the fossicker seems to see a vision of the future.

From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry

We knew a fossicker whose cat used to bring him a bunny nearly every night.

From On the Track by Lawson, Henry

The boy was an ardent fossicker, and loved to be burrowing amongst old tailings, or groping in the sludge of an auriferous creek after little patches.

From The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy by Dyson, Edward