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Advertiser (Adelaide) 12 July 5/7: The men who roved through the country begging for meals and work and taking only the former whether they had permission or not as downright robbers. Such were the ‘Murray whalers’. Advertiser (Adelaide) 5 Apr. 16/6: A young man in a wild state of excitement and ‘concertina’ leggings rushed into the [...] office. Advertiser (Adelaide) 25 Aug. 4/4: It was on the Adelaide Oval on Saturday afternoon. A boy, with a number of others, had entered by means of ‘sparrow tickets’ to watch the football. Advertiser (Adelaide) 1 Sept. 3/5: One of the first things to be attended to is to stop as far as we can the serving of liquor to persons known to be constantly taking too much. Why not put all who have been fined say three times for being drunk under the Blackfellows Act? Advertiser (Adelaide) 14 Dec. 5/5: Those [iguanas] that infest the haunts of the underground mutton (rabbits) are not destroyed, but the hen-egg robbers are dispatched without mercy. Advertiser (Adelaide) 16 Nov. 4/1: ‘Spoggie.’ – Sparrow eggs are not a marketable commodity, but prices are frequently given at agricultural shows for the largest collection of eggs. Advertiser (Adelaide) 26 Sept. 8/1: The persons described as ‘Murray whalers’ are guilty of theft and other forms of dishonesty. Advertiser (Aus.) 10 Aug. 3/7: Every Dick, Tom, or Harry who can stagger into their own camp [...] with a bottle of pinkie, i.e. cheap colonial wine. Advertiser (Adelaide) 4 June 9/1: Mr. J. H. Chinner addressed the meeting on ‘More chalk and less talk.’ He referred to the benefits of the use of the blackboard and chalk in Sunday-school work. Advertiser (Adelaide) 9 Aug. 7/8: This Mr Archibald described as double-distilled trash. Advertiser (Adelaide) 18 Dec. 8/9: He made me do pothooks for them, and said I couldn’t write my name. Advertiser (Adelaide) 18 Dec. 8/9: [I] told him I didn’t like it and wouldn’t be made a poppyshow of. Advertiser (Adelaide) 19 Nov. 9/2: Now he’s dived down into the depths. ‘Ann Veronica’ — story of a soiled dove. Advertiser (Adelaide) 14 Mar. 8/1: A little girl [...] was coasting down a hill on a ‘billy cart’ this afternoon, when she ran into a horse. The animal kicked her on the forehead, and she died soon afterwards. Advertiser (Adelaide) 20 Apr. 7/4: The only practical suggestion he makes is that there should be more space between seats on the ‘toast rack’ or ‘gridiron’ cars. Advertiser (Adelaide) 10 May 12/2: ‘Pinkie’ must go [...] ‘Pinkie’ and methylated spirits are the worst intoxicants in use in this city. Advertiser (Adelaide) 7 Jan. 19/8: The man, cramped by city life, feels an imperative call ‘to leave his bones on sunset track’. Advertiser (Adelaide) 1 June 7/5: The barcoo shout — three drinks for half a crown. Advertiser (Adelaide) 1 Apr. 10/5: ‘Barmaid’s blush has been called an intoxicating smile,’ said the customer [...] ‘It is not intoxicating at all [...] Beer and raspberry it is’. Advertiser (Adelaide) 27 Aug. 11/5: Apparently it only needs the sight of a Cabinet Minister to make [a suffragette] long for blood and to turn her into a reckless hatchet-slinger, bomb-thrower, or ‘fire- bug’. Advertiser (Adelaide) 18 Nov. 13/7: To the genuine revolutionary and red-ragger who has the courage of his convictions [...] I take off my hate. Advertiser (Adelaide) 28 May 11/7: Mr Jewell (heatedly)— And you are a ‘mong’. I say what I mean. He is not a man. He is a thing (Uproar). Advertiser (Adelaide) 28 Oct. 19/8: Now, when the antis come the gag, ‘The wealthy will escape,’ / And only Bill and Micko are fighting for their sake. / There’s just as many Oswalds, Fitzmaurices, and Berts, / ’Ave chucked their glassy ally in, and left their loving skirts / To battle for Australia, for justice, freedom, too, / But strike me up a wattle! Don’t yer want to see it through? Advertiser (Adelaide) 1 Oct. 6/8: Someone has been on the ‘shicker’. Advertiser (Adelaide) 28 Apr. 9/4: A lady passenger sitting in the toast-rack part of the car immediately jumped from the car with her little boy. Advertiser (Adelaide) 18 Feb. 8/5: I know who has potted on me. Advertiser (Adelaide) 3 Sept. 7/3: The cold, dark hours of the early morning, while ‘Tip’ and the rest of us are snugly anchored in Blanket Bay. Advertiser (Adelaide) 20 Oct. 20/9: Shillings in the plural are known as ‘blow’ [...] the word is never used in the singular. Advertiser (Adelaide) 6 Apr. 11/2: A man was filling a pint of beer; the reverberation was very heavy: the boozican dropped the pot. crying out, ‘Oh, hell! Here's those Russians again!’. Advertiser (Adelaide) 20 Oct. 20/9: It was stated in a London police court recently that a taxicab man asked his fare for two ‘’og’, and the passenger did not know what it meant.