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Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 29 Jan. 3/4: Mr. King was suspected of [...] using a halfpenny with the Britannia impression on both sides [...] It appears this species of fraud is not uncommon, and [is] understood by the technical slang of ‘playing the grey’. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 1 Nov. 3/3: Every wretch who can talk slang, [...] who is versed in the vocabulary of vice, is promoted to ‘billet’ and power. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 24 Dec. 862/1: [Those] who affect to be ministers, and preach in the open air to collect crowds for the benefit of those whose ‘mawleys’ dip deep into the ‘cly’ or who ‘fake
a blowens;’ and whether ‘magsmen,’ ‘buzgloaks,’ or ‘dummy-hunters’ give the ‘reglars to their ‘benculls’-pick
pockets, and share the spoil with their confederates. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 24 Dec. 862/1: [Those] who affect to be ministers, and preach in the open air to collect crowds for the benefit of those whose ‘mawleys’ dip deep into the ‘cly’ or who ‘fake
a blowens;’ and whether ‘magsmen,’ ‘buzgloaks,’ or ‘dummy-hunters’ give the ‘reglars to their ‘benculls’-pick
pockets, and share the spoil with their confederates. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 24 Dec. 862/1: Sir W. Denison [...] graciously granted the New Market place as a ‘boozing ken’ for the occasion [i.e. a dinner of licensed victuallers]. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 24 Dec. 862/1: [Those] who affect to be ministers, and preach in the open air to collect crowds for the benefit of those whose ‘mawleys’ dip deep into the ‘cly’ or who ‘fake
a blowens;’ and whether ‘magsmen,’ ‘buzgloaks,’ or ‘dummy-hunters’ give the ‘reglars to their ‘benculls’-pick
pockets, and share the spoil with their confederates. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 24 Dec. 862/3: [I]t is their wish they should be regarded as ‘transports,’ and let society comply with the request. Let them be known hereafter as Canaries, Yellow-Greys, or ‘our people,’ as the public choose. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 24 Dec. 862/1: [W]e should from his volubility have inferred that he had followed the calling of ‘public patterers,’ who affect to be ministers, and preach in the open air to collect crowds for the benefit of those whose ‘mawleys’ dip deep into the ‘cly’. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 24 Dec. 862/2: The very thought is appalling [...] How shall the ‘conveyancers,’ after a certain fashion, be able to spend their Christmas in comfort in ‘our country,’ if such transactions are prohibited? Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 24 Dec. 862/1: [Those] who affect to be ministers, and preach in the open air to collect crowds for the benefit of those whose ‘mawleys’ dip deep into the ‘cly’ or who ‘fake
a blowens;’ and whether ‘magsmen,’ ‘buzgloaks,’ or ‘dummy-hunters’ give the ‘reglars to their ‘benculls’-pick
pockets, and share the spoil with their confederates. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 24 Dec. 862/1: [W]e should from his volubility have inferred that he had followed the calling of ‘public patterers,’ who affect to be ministers, and preach in the open air to collect crowds for the benefit of those whose ‘mawleys’ dip deep into the ‘cly’ and ‘gropers’. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 24 Dec. 862/1: [Those] who affect to be ministers, and preach in the open air to collect crowds for the benefit of those whose ‘mawleys’ dip deep into the ‘cly’ or who ‘fake
a blowens;’ and whether ‘magsmen,’ ‘buzgloaks,’ or ‘dummy-hunters’ give the ‘reglars to their ‘benculls’-pick
pockets, and share the spoil with their confederates. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 24 Dec. 862/1: [Those] who affect to be ministers, and preach in the open air to collect crowds for the benefit of those whose ‘mawleys’ dip deep into the ‘cly’ or who ‘fake
a blowens;’ and whether ‘magsmen,’ ‘buzgloaks,’ or ‘dummy-hunters’ give the ‘reglars to their ‘benculls’-pick
pockets, and share the spoil with their confederates. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 24 Dec. 862/2: We presume this means by putting a pistol to their heads and demanding their money - that is, ‘do a pannie’. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 24 Dec. 862/1: [W]e should from his volubility have inferred that he had followed the calling of ‘public patterers,’ who affect to be ministers, and preach in the open air to collect crowds for the benefit of those whose ‘mawleys’ dip deep into the ‘cly’. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 24 Dec. 862/3: [I]t is their wish they should be regarded as ‘transports,’ and let society comply with the request. Let them be known hereafter as Canaries, Yellow-Greys, or ‘our people,’ as the public choose. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 7 May 479/4: DOGBERRY'S ADDRESS TO THE YELLOW- GREYS. (A Tasmanian ballad.) [...] The AUSTRALIAN LEAGUE shall understand / What Yellow-Greys can do. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 27 Oct. 5/1: A travelling hawker was stopped and robbed by Dido and his companion on Tuesday morning last [...] Dido then invited or rather ordered his mate [...] to help himself to a clean shirt and pair of socks from the hawker's stock. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 24 Oct. 2/1: I thought you told me you cuddy would eat nothing but nettles and thistles. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 28 June 7/1: Wanted for the Public Service [...] a number of gentlemen who are not attackec with delirium tremens above once a week [...] They who can present perfect brandy blossoms, and can perform the gin shakes, may reckon upon early employment. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 5 Apr.3/2: The honourable member has shown [...] the tone of a bully [...] and the language of a fish-fag. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 5 Apr.3/1: TheThe sweetest natured native will object to being styled an ‘Acidulated Geebung’. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 5 Apr.3/2: Old Huffer [...] Old Fogey. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 12 Nov. 5/2: The proprietor, not knowing by whom the pigs were fed, affixed large tickets to them, intimating that they came from ‘I. Donahoo, Esq, J.P, (judge of pigs) of Nowhere Hall.’. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 28 June 7/1: Wanted for the Public Service [...] a number of gentlemen who are not attackec with delirium tremens above once a week [...] They who can present perfect brandy blossoms, and can perform the gin shakes, may reckon upon early employment. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 12 Aug. 5/8: Colonel Crawford’s requisitionists do not appear to be the clean potato either. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 10 June 5/4: Fiji [...] The Kai Colos, or ‘Mountain Devils,’ have been giving some trouble again [...] They came down and attacked and burned several native villages. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 14 Dec. 1s/2: My Missis, who can fix a tea-table with any lady west of the Big Drink, is down with the fever. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 26 Mar. 2/5: When knocking off time came the contract [...] was, of course, still incomplete. Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 26 Mar. 2/5: I know some on us as got rheumatiz bad in our backs.