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Mirror (Sydney) 13 Oct. 3: A lump on his fat head as big as an egg, thanks to the tripehound’s rudder work, And while he was in dreamland, Spotty dragged him hence, and he’ll rest in the cop-shop while his bump goes down, and a bit longer, we hope. Mirror (Sydney) 22 Sept. 8: ‘Sixpence, then?’ ‘Not a drube.’ Think I’m the Bank of England?’. Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/2: In banker, ‘longs and shorts’ are frequently, used. The cards are shaved on the ends, and the player knows when he is cutting a high card or a low one. Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/2: In banker, ‘longs and shorts’ are frequently, used. The cards are shaved on the ends, and the player knows when he is cutting a high card or a low one. Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/1: Old-timers still remember the stirring days, or nights, when Superintendents, then Inspectors, Roche and Kelly led their ‘bulls’ against many a strongly fortified fan tan shop. Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/2: A ‘Derwent’ has a little break or ridge around the lip of the pot which permits the expert thrower to cast the dice in such a way that he wins every time he wants to. It is said that the term arose in Tasmania, where the break was supposed to represent the river Derwent. Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/2: Every confidence man ‘travels’ with all sorts of traps for the mugs. There is the ‘derwent’ pot, the ‘slithery,’ the top-sider, and the ‘rail-way.’ These are specially prepared pots, or dice boxes, which a skilful manipulator uses at his discretion. Mirror (Sydney) (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/2: ‘Dispatchers’ is a name applied to sets which have all the numbers barring the sevens. It is alleged that ‘dispatchers’ were being used in the billiard saloon raided last Saturday week. Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/2: The dice have their own foibles. [...] There are highs and lows. The manipulator, by sleight of hand, inserts in the pot the set he wants. If he wants a high main, in go the highs, and the lows if a small count is desired. Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/2: The manipulator, by sleight of hand, inserts in the pot the set he wants. If he wants a high main, in go the highs, and the lows if a small count is desired. Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/3: Poker players have their ‘strippers,’ where the sides of the cards are faked in such a way that the dealer knows what cards he is dealing to other players. ‘Mockers’ or ‘readers’ are another variation of the game which brings grist to the sharper’s mill. Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/2: The ‘nob,’ or double-headed penny, and the ‘shieler,’ or double-tailed ‘woman,’ are made by filing the coins down and soldering them together again. Such good jobs are made of them that often it is very hard to detect the join. Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/3: ‘But he followed me again and began hitting me. I was going to give him one’ . Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/2: Sleight of hand tells every time, and the man who cannot ‘palm’ might as well be out of. Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/2: The dice have their own foibles. If anyone asked what puzzlers were, probably the name would be enough to tell him what their part in the game was. They only throw certain mains [i.e. totals], and the player is always sure of a win. Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/3: Poker players have their ‘strippers,’ where the sides of the cards are faked in such a way that the dealer knows what cards he is dealing to other players. ‘Mockers’ or ‘readers’ are another variation of the game which brings grist to the sharper’s mill. Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/1: On Sunday, August 17, a school playing two-up openly off Buckingham-street, City, was raided, and the police got 13 of the players. Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/2: When Scott was searched the sergeant found on him four double-headed and one double-tailed pennies. The other three fellows were among the mugs, although before the ‘nobs’ and ‘shieler,’ as the coins are termed in the vernacular, were unearthed, they probably would have declared that they knew all about the tricks of the game. Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/2: A reformed thief, no matter how much he has repented the evil of his ways, hates to be a ‘snitch’ . Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/1: Hazards or dice, two up, and several well-known card games afford the spieler who knows his game wonderful opportunities to make easy money. Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/3: Poker players have their ‘strippers,’ where the sides of the cards are faked in such a way that the dealer knows what cards he is dealing to other players. Mirror (Sydney) 23 Mar. 5/6: [of human swimmers] The latter are quite touchy on the point taken by their opponents that several years of droughts in the Holy Land have put them out of running with the wobbegongs from the Somme. Mirror (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/2: The ‘nob,’ or double-headed penny, and the ‘shieler,’ or double-tailed ‘woman,’ are made by filing the coins down and soldering them together again.