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Eve. News (Sydney) 3 Dec. 4/2: What must be thought of the pious impostors who had been, for the last forty years ‘chiselling’ a church, by passing off upon the unfortunate clerk so many ‘brummagems’ and ‘Tommy Dodds’ that he had at last collected a regular treasury of them? Eve. News (Sydney) 3 Dec. 4/2: What must be thought of the pious impostors who had been, for the last forty years ‘chiselling’ a church, by passing off upon the unfortunate clerk so many ‘brummagems’ and ‘Tommy Dodds’ that he had at last collected a regular treasury of them? Eve. News (Sydney) 3 Dec. 4/2: The saintly smirk and the look of benevolence with which some white-chokered old ‘smasher’ jingled into the collecting plate the ‘counterfeit presentment’ of liberality. Eve. News (Sydney) 20 Feb. 3/4: He [...] said he had taken a ‘thimble and slang.’ I told him I did not know what that meant, and he said it meant a ‘watch and chain’. Eve. News (Sydney) 30 Aug. 2/5: The prisoner Jamieson subsequently
took leg bail by escaping from the Central
Police Station, and is still at large. Eve. News (Sydney) 8 May 6/2: She could not stand a man who did nothing but smoke all day; she would be jealous of his Manillas or his Trichie, or whatever particular weed he affected. Eve. News (Sydney) 3 Jan. 3/1: Inside the building the powerful [...] engines are kept in apple-pie order. Eve. News (Sydney) 27 Oct. 8/3: William Traves and James Fitzgerald felt a touch of that perpetual thirst which usually torments the votaries of Bacchus; but they had not the wherewithal to procure an ‘alleviator’. Eve. News (Sydney) 28 Jan. 3/6: Mr. Trevor Jones has often tried to tickle the engineer-in-chief for water supply. Eve. News (Sydney) 11 Sept. 9/1: Pleased all to Pieces [...] The news of [...] the Borenore extension of the western railway was received here with great satisfaction. Eve. News (Sydney) 15 May 7/6: Well, the thing was a failure. It was all up with our escape, and we knew we should get in for it. Eve. News (Sydney) 27 Apr. 7/4: I could see how it was to be done as easily as ‘snuff’. Eve. News (Sydney) 22 May 3/6: ll you blooming fellows what write’s thinks because a chap is up at court for ‘tapping a beak’ [...] he must be a booser. Eve. News (Sydney) 15 May 7/5: We determined to escape. It was a difficult job, but we meant to ‘best’ the warders. Eve. News (Sydney) 22 May 3/6: All you blooming fellows what write’s thinks because a chap is up at court [...] he must be a booser, and hang round pubs on Sunday. Eve. News (Sydney) 15 May 7/6: I used to get lots of ‘boozingtons’ home to dinner. Eve. News (Sydney) 27 Apr. 7/3: He ran into the wing and told one of the ‘bosses.’ Four of the warders came out and asked me to go into the wing. Eve. News (Sydney) 22 May 3/6: The free-thinker coves were not there, or else we could have some fun chevying them. Anyhow [...] after tea we chiaked the Salvation ‘Army’ again. Eve. News (Sydney) 15 May 7/5: What a come down! There was I; who had been looking forward to being an author, reduced to a body snatcher. Eve. News (Sydney) 27 Apr. 7/4: I got ‘copped’ on suspicion of robbing a drunken man in Hyde Park. Eve. News (Sydney) 27 Apr. 7/3: Many have been the ‘coppermen,’ as Joe still delights to call the police, who have carried the scars of conflict inflicted by their dreaded enemy. Eve. News (Sydney) 27 Apr. 7/4: I said ‘I am going for a bathe,’ and he took it, the flat, although if he had gone into Castlereagh-street he could have collared the cigars. Eve. News (Sydney) 15 May 7/5: It was all up with our escape, and we knew we should get in for it. Eve. News (Sydney) 27 Apr. 7/3: No inducement could lead me to give up my friends, dishonest as they were. Eve. News (Sydney) 22 May 3/6: We went down into the hollow, and we had a very fair game. Some of us ‘headed ‘em.’ some went at pitch-and-toss, and two lots went for ‘nap’ [...] Anyhow, we enjoys our Sunday, and I can’t see no more harm in playing headings [...] on Sunday. Eve. News (Sydney) 27 Apr. 7/3: I got a large number of purses; but there was so little in them that I thought it better to ‘hook it,’ and to turn my hand to something more lucrative. Eve. News (Sydney) 15 May 7/5: I laid hands on all I could get. They ‘spotted’ me. [...] The place was getting too hot. They were going to lynch me; so I cleared out. Eve. News (Sydney) 27 Apr. 7/3: Joe [...] has had a constitution of iron and nerves of steel. He was always ready for any ‘job’. Eve. News (Sydney) 27 Apr. 7/4: The next morning when I was awaiting my trial, I took off my boots and coat, and asked my mate to keep his lamps trimmed. Eve. News (Sydney) 27 Apr. 7/4: Well, they took me and a mate on suspicion of robbing a man of £1, although it was only just before that I had lifted a lushington of £8.