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in Sun (Sydney) 16 Apr. (1912) 9/2: Sydney in 1788 [...] He failed to locate the mine, even at the bayonet’s point, and received a canary , or one hundred lashes, to be followed by an other hundred, and yet another hundred, until a gold mine materialised. The canary made Peter whistle. Sun (Sydney) 20 Oct. 5/3: He is [...] dragged over to the patrol box, where an alarm is sent in for ‘the hurry-up waggon’. Sun (Sydney) 28 Aug. 9/5: That new piano was busted to smithereens; we’d cut bonzer big holes in the new drop-curtain, an’ smashed every stick of furniture in the place. Sun (Sydney) 26 May 6/8: [signature to a letter] John Kafoops ‘Dishcloth,’ Rose Bay. Sun (Sydney) 6 Jan. 6/8: These, please him infinitely more / Than books which English kids pick out, / Like ‘Skiting Sid, the Snoshter Scout’. Sun (Sydney) 27 June 6/8: ‘Strewth an’ strike me purple-paralytic,’ says the cabby. Sun (Sydney) 8 Mar. 14/1: ‘You’re in wrong,’ chirped a youngster, ‘the Thunderbolt has shot his wad long ago. Why, Jack Dillon is the main guy now’. Sun (Sydney) 21 Feb. 15/6: Note. - Citizens are warned against using, towards the enemy, such expressions as ‘Giving them beans’; or ‘Giving them rats,’ as they are calculated to excite appetites and make people feel hungrier than they really are. Sun (Sydney) 18 Sept. 4/4: I cannot raise a thrumbo fer a tram. Sun (Sydney) 4 July 6/3: And all the rank and file of the party cheered and cheered, and acclaimed him as a bonzerino. Sun (Sydney) 17 Mar. 5/7: It is interesting to read of the activities of the Board of Health and the medical profession generally in the field of research in their endeavor to locate the wily little ‘wog’ responsible for the mysterious disease now known as X. Sun (Sydney) 6 Mar. 8/2: This class of man is not a professional. He is what Americans call ‘a piker,’ and deals only in fivers or tenners. The high-class confidence men left Australia years ago [...] Those men deal only in hundreds and thousands. Sun (Sydney) 2 Aug. 2/7: [headline] ‘Double-Banking’ a Bike. Brother and Sister Hurt. Sun (Sydney) 26 Feb. 6/5: Vimy seemed, to ’ang in the tapes. Somethin’ was bung in the pressure valve— so I ’eard her rider say. Sun (Sydney) 22 Mar. 5/5: The [two-up] school was in full swing, and the watchman for the gamblers, better known as the ‘cockatoo,’ was on a look-out viewing the bushy country around. Sun (Sydney) 26 Feb. 6/5: Felix Nella, yer see, ’adn’t won a race for a dog’s age; though, mind yer, the good coin ’ud been planked down dozens of times. Sun (Sydney) 26 Feb. 6/5: It was a great race [...] at Kenso yester day. Felix Nella, yer see, ’adn’t won a race for a dog’s age; though, mind yer, the good coin ’ud been planked down dozens of times. Sun (Sydney) 26 Feb. 6/5: Felix Nella, yer see, ’adn’t won a race for a dog’s age; though, mind yer, the good coin ’ud been planked down dozens of times. Sun (Sydney) 30 Dec. 8/1: ‘Ain’t ’e a beaut?’ ‘Yah! Yer ain't got an earthly, Dago!’ chaffed the Imp, good-humoredly, ‘’E runs like a hairy goat’. Sun (Sydney) 12 Oct. 8/1: ‘What is a ‘trizzie’?’ asked Sergeant White at the Central Police Court this morning. It was explained to him that it was the latest term for a threepenny bit. Sun (Sydney) 17 Oct. 6/3: This ’ere w’ite scar I wears above me lip / Was done wiv metal, Cripes! It was a bonze! / I copped it when a kid in Hogan’s Bush, / While we was scrappin’ wiv’ a rival push. Sun (Sydney) 28 Aug. 2/4: Hanging outside the bathroom in a cage is a canary, and a few days after the ‘spag’s’ first visit he made a pal of the prisoner, and perched on its cage. Sun (Sydney) 22 July 14/2: In the delicate matter of dlsponslng of champagne there 1b much to learn from this valuable compilation. How few of us, for instance, know how to compound a ‘Hot Locomotive,’ or a ‘Port Light,’ or a ‘Barmaid’s Blush’. Sun (Sydney) 5 Mar. 8/1: The supposed firebug evidently watches every move that is being made. Sun (Sydney) 3 Dec. 19/2: [headline] Wife’s Flag! She waved pound notes out of husband’s pocket. Sun (Sydney) 18 Mar. 17/3: There will be no ‘gods’ or ‘top shelf’ in the new theatre . Sun (Sydney) 27 Apr. 10/3: ‘The Carillon,’ said Sir Mungo, ‘Is the best and boskerest and most astounding of its kind in all the world. Avaunt, fellow!’. Sun (Sydney) 9 Feb. 12/4: Nix on it kid! We’ll say the joke’s on you. Sun (Sydney) 30 Jan. 3/3: Least affected to date by the reform wave are the beer, ‘alky’ and whisky racketeers. Sun (Sydney) 22 Oct. 15/6: A Voice: He’s gotta dam cheek. Mr. Lang: He’s got more than that. ‘Give him the bridge,’ suggested a wag. ‘Give him the boot!’ said Mr. Lang.