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Adventures in Aus. 119: It is not very complimentary to ask one who speaks to you, ‘Are you,’ in the idiomatic phraseology of the bush, ‘a clean potato?’ If he is not a convict, he must think he has a convict’s look. Adventures in Aus. 216: Doubtless, as the colony advances, this spirit of ‘pointing’ will disappear, and a fair legitimate system of trading and commerce will be introduced [AND]. Adventures in Aus. 301: For safety the well disposed camp together, for the ‘pointers’ go in gangs and large bodies. Adventures in Aus. 130: We left […] for the bush, respectively mounted on Admiral, Abelard, and Polka, with a young ‘tiger’ carrying our saddle bags and ‘swag’ [AND]. Adventures in Aus. 71: He was a shrewd, sensible, kind-hearted man; no ‘stuck-uppedness’ about him, no ‘bounce,’ to use a colonial term. Adventures in Aus. 62: The freedom and independence of such a life, the total absence of carking care. Adventures in Aus. 45: Anyone who had been in the colony for some length of time would know a newly arrived ‘jimmygrant’ at once. Adventures in Aus. 44: A man who had been transported, was said to have been ‘lagged,’ and a transport was an ‘old lag’. Adventures in Aus. 108: One was a Lancashire man, who was always called Lankey. Adventures in Aus. 71: Two others were Londoners, transported from that city [...] One went by the name of Stewart, and the other was called ‘Towney,’ a name generally given to Londoners. Adventures in Aus. 71: I was always called ‘Yorky,’ the name given to all Yorkshiremen.