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Maitland Mercury (NSW) 6 Apr. 2/5: It became celebrated lately for the famous parish of Hastings [...] when many an expectant, cocksure of jumping into a fortune, boots and all, was bamboozled out of cash certain for prizes improbable. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 13 Mar. 4/3: Every horse you possess having no action, or which a day's journey would knock up, (to be found in lots far more numerous than the Chinamen as yet,) ought to be turned out to fatten; when plump, take the animal into the nearest station, occupied by these chopsticks. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 13 Mar. 4/2: [I]t is to be feared that the flocks will not benefit by the change from under the charge of British boys unto the tender mercies of Chow Chows from China. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 28 July 7/3: The butter was not even fit for cart grease. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 14 Dec. 2/4: Some time ago the fair sex took possession of the bogey hole, but in consequence of the practice referred to being daily resorted to, they were obliged to abandon the place. Maitland Mercury (Aus.) 5 Mar. 2/6: The celebrated pick-pocket and Cockatoo Islander Barney Levy had [..] been cutting his leg-irons with a file. Maitland Mercury (Aus.) 16 Nov. 3/5: It was a woman’s vioice that said ‘You — old bitch, you are murderign me‘. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 11 Feb. 1/6: [There are] storms; but they are merely clouds of dust, sometimes accompanied by Darling showers — that is, two drops to the acre — and only serve to tantalize us in our need. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 1 June 3/1: [H]e was a stranger, with a superfluity of jewellery, and a ‘haw haw’" style. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 1 June 3/1: [H]e was a stranger, with a superfluity of jewellery, and a ‘haw haw’" style. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 29 Nov. 3/3: What next! mayhap this wrinkle will suggest the idea of inviting tenders for the various official vacancies as they occur in future. Davy stand for the ‘happy thought,’ go straight at the principle, my chassepot, and like ‘Tommy Dodd’ you are bound to win. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 1 Sept. 3/6: [W]hilst riding upon a Pitt street bus, an altercation ensued between a fellow passenger and the conductor of the bus upon the subject of a ‘Tommy Dodd’ shilling. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 1 Nov. 4/5: Sergeant Meagher has started to Narrabri, with a prisoner for Tamworth, James Lynch, who lately received three months for ‘sweating’ a horse. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 18 June 7/4: The breeze [is] cold enough to freeze ‘ the eyeballs in a brass monkey’. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 2 May 6: I have nothing to report, let me sque[?]ze my knowledge box ever so hard. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 14 Mar. 7/4: [O]ne of our celebrated ‘Darling showers’ [...] An almost solid wall of dust that forced itself into every crack and crevice. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 3 May 6/2: Middlesex [...] has never proved to be a ‘swallow catcher’. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 16 Sept. 2/5: At the City Police Court yesterday [...] Cornelius Goulden and Benjamin Adams, the ringleaders of the gang of thieves technically known as ‘hotel barbers,’ that have for some weeks past committed numerous depredations in Melbourne, were brought up on several charges of larceny. Maitland mercury 23 Aug. 6/3: We could hear the black fellows ‘yabbering’ and we thought we were right for capture. Maitland Mercury 15 Jan. 4/6: True Blue gives promise of doing something this meeting, as he put Lowlander through on Saturday morning over a mile, doing the fair ‘dinkum’ with whip and spur. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 24 June 2/2: A man [...] having sunry applications of sticking-plaster on his frontispiece. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 3 June 4/2: [F]our persons have a " leg in" for the special prize. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 28 Feb. 14/6: The New York Mail demands that every theatre shall have a hat room [...] for the use of ladies, and that it should be [...] a rule for them to leave their top-loftical head gear in that room. Maitland Mercury (NSW) 28 Feb. 14/6: [I]t should be [...] a rule for [ladies] to leave their top-loftical head gear in that room [...] as it is for the mal3 part of the assemblage to be bare-headed, when they resume their seats after going out to see a man. ‘Lela’ in Maitland Mercury (Aus./NSW) 31 Mar. 2/2: In the rear of the house one of the gang of banditti strode up to him. ‘Ye ain’t such an addle cove as to git egag cause you amputated the bandog and beat the scorn, are ye?’. ‘Lela’ in Maitland Mercury (Aus./NSW) 2: In the rear of the house one of the gang of badnitti strode up to him. ‘Ye ain’t such an addle cove as to git egag cause you amputated the bandog and beat the scorn, are ye?’. ‘Lela’ in Maitland Mercury (Aus./NSW) 2: In the rear of the house one of the gang of badnitti strode up to him. ‘Ye ain’t such an addle cove as to git egag cause you amputated the bandog and beat the scorn, are ye?’. ‘Lela’ in Maitland Mercury (Aus./NSW) 31 Mar. 2: Swivel-Eye shot the bandog, the cop. ‘Lela’ in Maitland Mercury (Aus./NSW) 31 Mar. 2: The arch gonnoff is dusty, you’d better wish. If he rats you are a prate roost, you’ll get put to bed with a shovel. Maitland Mercury (Aus./NSW) 31 Mar. 2: ‘Inform on you? I see.’ ‘Now you’ve got the racket down fine’.