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Geelong Advertiser 14 Aug. 2/4: Midnight Marauders. We had hopes that this gang of mischievous youths had been broken up [...] If the police would only keep a sharp eye upon them for a few nights, and lay a few of them fast by heels, the spirit of ‘brickism’ would soon be broken [AND]. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 23 May 3/3: [H]is London friends, [...] should send him either a goose or an alderman in chains,. Geelong Advertiser 7 Mar. 2/3: The ‘government stroke’ is soon learned; and the proficiency of the new hands seems to exceed that of the oldest gang [AND]. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 11 Nov. 1/1: [T]he bobbery he kicksup over it, shews he’s in arnest. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 21 Oct. 1/3: [S]uch talk was all ‘bounce,’ and that he (Mr W.) was a fool to her ‘cove,’ a chap who was able to beat him all to ‘smash and nothing’. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 20 Oct. 2/3: The prisoner turned round to his master and impudently remarked, ‘You shall not get forty shillings out of me [...] I mean to take it out in bricks, like a trump’. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 21 Oct. 2/2: ‘[F]or the disgustless kick he gave me astonished me intirely, and made me feel ‘all overish like’. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 20 Nov. 2/3: [S]he proceeded to rub noses with him, which [...] caused an awful all-overishness to transfuse his limbs that made his blood race in double quick time [...] the end of all was that he became as potter’s clay, or as wax in the hands of the enchantress. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 13 Nov. 2/2: T]he officer managed to secure his man, and was walking him off to the ‘cage’. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 3 Apr. 1/1: [I am] a first rate bruiser, in fact a thorough strike-me-stiff smash-me-dead sort of customer &c, a man of interminable yarnsu. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 25 June 2/4: Her Majesty’s good English is in great danger of going out of use at the gold fields [...] For example, a thief is dubbed a ‘fossicker,’ a bad hole a ‘schisser,’ and a man taking off his coat to work is said to be ‘shaping.’ . Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 25 June 2/4: Her Majesty’s good English is in great danger of going out of use at the gold fields [...] For example, a thief is dubbed a ‘fossicker,’ a bad hole a ‘schisser,’ and a man taking off his coat to work is said to be ‘shaping’ . Geelong Advertiser 28 Mar. 1/1: In your police report of the other day, there is the case of an individual designed ‘Batten - an ill-looking fellow, with the Botany Bay coat of arms on his face,’ who was fined £10 for using obscene language . Geelong Advertiser 7 Jan. 1/5: The slang of ‘Ethiopian serenaders’ for once gives place to thoughts and language racy of the soil, and we need not say how refresh[ing] it is to be separated for a season from the conventional Sambo of the modern stage. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 7 Aug. 4/4: He (Mr Booley) asserted that every public-house was a poison shop. (Loud cheers.) — If our streets, or the very stones in our streets, could cry out they would cry out murder against these poison shops. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 18 Feb. 3/2: [H]e ordered the defendant [...] to go aloft, but was told by him in reply, ‘to go and bag your head,’ with other ejaculations too obscene to repeat. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 6 Dec. 3/4: She observed that Mrs Nangie had only made the charge against her for the purpose of ‘bilking’ a man. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 4 Feb. 3/5: Are ‘Chance it’ ‘No fear,’ and ‘my word’ more to your liking, and does it never strike you that such terms are ‘slang,’ and that slang a true gentleman will ever avoid. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 2 Apr. 3/1: Upston was all there as wicket keeper, as well as Williamson and O’Dwyer at bowling. Geelong Advertiser 15 May 3/6: [A] whole army of (brazen courtesans and ‘painted Jezebels’ has invaded the city [...] The places where they have congregated have received the name [...] ‘Ranches,’ a word that in Texas signifies an enclosure for cattle. The ‘Ranches’ of Madame This or That are as openly conduced as the hotels or boarding-houses. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 21 Nov. 2/7: [I]f they want what in slang is termed ‘a spree’ they can get as jolly on it [i.e. ‘colonial wine’] as they can on anything else. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 19 Oct. 2/6: Our oracular Melbourne contemporary does not seem to be ‘fly,’ to use an expressive slang term. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 5 Sept. 3/3: The perpetrators of that piece of ‘tiddley-winking’ [...] got six months for their pains. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 4 Dec. 5/1: ‘We’re shut in. And strike me perpendicular if it don’t make me feel for all the world like a bloomin’ monkey in the Zoo . Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 3 Feb. 1/4: Henry Teagno, who is regarded by the detective police as an unusually clever member of the hotel barbering fraternity, got 12 months’ imprisonment to-day. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 3 Feb. 1/4: Henry Teagno, who is regarded by the detective police as an unusually clever member of the hotel barbering fraternity, got 12 months’ imprisonment to-day owing to his having had the misfortune to be in possession of what is known as a masterpiece [...] The masterpiece is an instrument which, when a door is looked from the inside and the key-left in, grips the end of the key protruding outwards and turns it round. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 31 July 8/3: Leaving camp at 11 a.m. we proceeded to the tram, had a ‘clean boot, sah,’ for half a ‘disaster’ (piastre), and reached Cairo in time for lunch, which we had at the Petrograd restaurant, a very decent place, where we had a boshta lunch for twelve ‘disasters.’. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 31 July 8/3: Leaving camp at 11 a.m. we proceeded to the tram, had a ‘clean boot, sah,’ for half a ‘disaster’ (piastre), and reached Cairo in time for lunch, which we had at the Petrograd restaurant, a very decent place, where we had a boshta lunch for twelve ‘disasters.’. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 4 June 2/6: In every case there is a professional scout to keep ‘yow’: he [...] takes his position on a commanding height and sweeps the surrounding country with field glasses. Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 24 Nov. 3/1: Asked by the magistrate, what he did for a living, and where he slept at night, the defendant replied, [...] 'I am like the swallow, that bird of passage, constantly on the move and asleep when the sun sets.’' The magistrate, who had some difficulty in calling the vagrant to order, imposed a sentence of six months’ imprisonment.