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Inquirer & Commercial News (Perth) 26 Jan. 3/2: Rose a barman nigh forty years, / Placed a long sleever in sight, / They saw him drink.at long-sleever (n.) under long, adj.
Inquirer & Commercial News (Perth) 26 Jan. 3/2: Rose a barman nigh forty years, / Placed a long sleever in sight, / They saw him drink. Inquirer & Commercial News (Perth) 17 Aug. 2/8: Mugs of colonial beer [...] / Shypoo and lemonade.at shypoo, n.
Inquirer & Commercial News (Perth) 10 Oct. 3/5: [of a horse] Megaphone has been [...] beaten by crocks and both Teacum and Carbine gave him a ‘donkey licking’.at donkey lick, v.
Inquirer & Commercial News (Perth) 30 Sept. 3/4: We love the barmaid, love to hang / Around her flies and hear her slang, / But most of all we love her bang.at bang, n.1
Inquirer & Commercial News (Perth) 22 June 5/2: Strangulation [...] was really the only form of death in the old method of hanging before the long-drop was introduced.at drop, n.1
Inquirer & Commercial News (Perth) 1 June 15/4: There is such comicality attached to the yarn that is told about this individual that it is worth repeating. A friend would on meeting another say, Hallo, old fellow, have you heard what ‘Tom Collins’ has been saying about you, and would repeat some diabolical imaginary accusation alleged to have been hurled at him by ‘T. C.’ By the great Jeoshaphat, who is ‘Tom Collins,’ where is this darned skunk to be seen - let me get at him, and I will soon settle his hash for him, would the accused party scowlingly utter; oh, his friend would reply, ‘you will find him at such a place,’ mentioning some well-known Hostelry, the occupants of which had been put up to the joke and would pass the aggrieved one still further on by saying, oh yes, ‘Tom Collins’ has just left 5 minutes ago - and so the joke would go on, day after day a fresh victim being made, until half of Sydney were rushing wildly about seeking this notorious scandal, mischief-making ‘Tom Collins,’ who was after all only a myth.at Tom Collins, n.
Inquirer & Commercial News (Perth) 19 June 5/9: The defendant carried a ‘Dr Jim’ white hat.at Dr Jim, n.
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