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Most of the children had to work but in their free time they played marbles or other outdoor games.

Children on the goldfields often helped their parents in the search for gold. they carried wood and buckets of dirt, fossicked among the mullock heaps, looked after the animals such as horses and helped their mothers with the housework. If parents wanted their children to go to school, they sometimes had to pay, although in some regions, schooling was provided free.

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