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in Knocking About in N.Z. viii: This is the sort of young gentleman who ‘pioneers,’ who [...] ‘knocks about’ in the wilderness for three years.at knock about, v.1
in Knocking About in N.Z. viii: This is the sort of young gentleman who ‘pioneers,’ who [...] ‘knocks about’ in the wilderness for three years. Knocking About in N.Z. 141: I [...] was not sorry to turn in early that night, pretty well baked.at baked, adj.
Knocking About in N.Z. 140: The balls began to rattle about the trees above us.at ball, n.1
Knocking About in N.Z. 140: I was not entirely free from the sensation known by schoolboys as blue funk.at blue funk (n.) under blue, adj.1
Knocking About in N.Z. 112: We had pitched camp [...] and were boiling our billy of burgoo for tea.at burgoo, n.
Knocking About in N.Z. 127: If he had not been restrained and hampered by the ‘penny wise and pound foolish’ system which some miserable carpet-knights have fostered and encouraged, the news of the fatal affair [...] would never have been told.at carpet knight, n.
in Knocking About in N.Z. viii: This is the sort of young gentleman who [...] camps affably with the savages, ‘chums in’ with diggers.at chum, v.
Knocking About in N.Z. 135: Strictness in these matters may be necessary enough in a showy body of men, such as mounted police or a crack regiment in Her Majesty’s service.at crack, adj.
Knocking About in N.Z. 141: We reached the Wangangaro Redoubt [...] and were served out with a ‘doubler,’ or two lots of grog in one.at doubler, n.1
Knocking About in N.Z. 10: That worthy professional [...] persisted in keeping his trap crawling at a slow pace exactly in front of the four-in-hand drag that Ramsey was driving.at drag, n.1
Knocking About in N.Z. 124: The ganger was a nigger-driver of the worst type.at nigger-driver, n.
Knocking About in N.Z. 99: Our claim proved a ‘duffer’.at duffer, n.2
Knocking About in N.Z. 11: He [...] invited ‘the man of fives’ to a speedy adjustment of their differences.at fives, n.
Knocking About in N.Z. 111: Mr. Browning [...] had avoided mention of its dangers, for fear of alarming us too soon, and what schoolboys call ‘establishing a funk’.at funk, n.2
Knocking About in N.Z. 17: The ‘gaffer,’ finding me not equal to the others, who were all old hands, gave me the ‘sack’.at gaffer, n.2
Knocking About in N.Z. 112: We had expected to find also a couple of bottles of grog.at grog, n.1
‘Money’ in Knocking About in N.Z. vii: He [...] becomes intoxicated at noonday, hectors it at Cleals, and discourses profoundly on life in London from the gallery of the Oriental Café.at hector, v.
Knocking About in N.Z. 123: He was let off eventually with a fearful ‘hiding’.at hiding, n.
Knocking About in N.Z. 113: A bottle of Hollands, which was disposed of with the utmost celerity.at Hollands, n.
Knocking About in N.Z. 147: I [...] hunted up a mate, who was a hard-working chap, ‘wired into’ the work, and in less than two months had cleared a sum that gave us £30.at wire in, v.
Knocking About in N.Z. 103: I was joined one by one by many others, several of whom had been among the first to ‘Joe’ me at the beginning.at joe, v.1
Knocking About in N.Z. 139: The Maories never for a moment thinking of helping to carry their ‘Pakeha’ comrades, dead or wounded.at P?keh?, n.
Knocking About in N.Z. 80: I worked with ‘Lanky’ for a month.at lanky, n.
Knocking About in N.Z. 92: Well mate, what luck?at mate, n.1
Knocking About in N.Z. 11: My attention was attracted to the store by the natty appearance and manner of its proprietor.at natty, adj.
Knocking About in N.Z. 130: We removed to a respectable distance, where we should at least not be such easy pots for the concealed niggers.at nigger, n.1
Knocking About in N.Z. 76: Luckily I had two or three pieces of ‘nigger-head’ tobacco (Barrett’s Twist) in my pocket.at niggerhead, n.1
Knocking About in N.Z. 13: There behind the bar of the ‘White Star’ was Reinecker [...] serving a ‘nobbler’ to a sashed and booted digger.at nobbler, n.3
Knocking About in N.Z. 50: Rowley, I, and one other, were obliged to risk our lives to satisfy the obstinate Paddy.at Paddy, n.
Knocking About in N.Z. 29: He was not one of those paper-collar bushmen, who expect their men to do everything while they look on. [Ibid.] 86: I enjoyed a real spell of what diggers call a ‘paper-collar life’.at paper-collar (adj.) under paper, adj.
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