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Moreton Bay Courier choose

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[Aus] Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld.) 15 May 3/1: When they were asked how they liked Sydney they replied it was ‘budgere place, plenty meal, plenty flour, plenty tobacco, plenty every thing’.
at budgery, adj.
[Aus] Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld.) 15 May 3/1: [T]hey have expressed their determination to ‘bail crammer’ (act honestly) for the future; the meaning of which is, that they will neither steal anything [...] nor tell a lie.
at crammer, n.
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