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Leader (Melbourne) 12 Dec. 14/1: [W]e never find a man who has become expert as [...] a ‘snakesman’ usurping the province of a ‘cracksman,’ which thieves’ English, being interpreted, means that a man who steals a living by carrying off goods exposed at a shop door will not be found guilty of housebreaking. Leader 24 Oct. 17/1: Turn, turn thy shanghay dread aside, / Nor touch that little bird. Leader (Melbourne) 23 June 4/2: He also quoted specimens of colonial slang [...] including such phrases as ‘cornstalk’ and ‘gumsucker’. Leader (Melbourne) 23 Feb. 7/3: [He] a very extensive swell [...] spent money freely, had first-class appointments, was liberal to his companions, and, in slang parlance, ‘did the extreme heavy’. Leader (Melbourne) 26 Nov. 21/3: A magnificent cake of gold of about £2000 in value, was retorted at Rowe and party’s claim. Leader (Melbourne) 5 Nov. 10/2: My advice to them is to ‘go in lemons,’ and obtain a place of importance in the cricketing world. Leader (Melbourne) 2 Sept. 18/2: No decent woman dare show her face in the stalls of the Royal after a certain hour, because the, gangway is blocked by a crowd of the demimonde. Nor is that institution, known amongst horsey men as the saddling paddock, the sort of place by which any gentleman would like to lead either his wife or his sister. Leader (Melbourne) 11 May 19/4: Colonial goose is an article on the bill of fare at some cheap eating houses in the city, which has puzzled their frequenters. They find it rather like very young veal, and extremely toothsome as cheap feeding goes. Leader (Melbourne) 11 May 19/4: Colonial goose is another term for black swan, which somehow does not look inviting on a carte. Leader (Melbourne) 5 May 12/4: Sir John lost a lump on him, but landed a ‘raker’ over the hurdle race. Leader (Melbourne) 27 Aug. 30/2: As a ‘backblocker’ would' say, they had ‘stirred the ’possum in him,’ and if the present Government was put out [...] he would be found fighting for Dundas again. Leader (Melbourne) 27 Nov. 20/3: ‘Strike me up a sheoak, there ain’t “no flies” as I kin see on them two blokes thet’s battin’!’ . Leader (Melbourne) 27 Nov. 20/3: ‘I must ’a killed scores ov ’em on me ’ands, an’ I’ll swear I’ve drunk nigh on a ’undred ov ’em this mornin’ in long beers; but, strike me up a sheoak, there ain’t ‘no flies’ as I kin see on them two blokes thet’s battin’!’ . Leader (Melbourne) 28 July 28/4: ‘’Tother side is Victoria. Don’t you know that much, thickhead?’ . Leader (Melbourne) 12 Oct. 19/3: The big lode in the North Woah Hawp mine, Ballarat East, is showing signs of further improvement, and the ‘chucks in’ which the company frequently obtains from the indicator in the shape of nuggets, add in no small measure to the golden outputs. Leader (Melbourne) 26 Nov. 42/1: It’s a minah’s – a real boshter of a nest. Say we go and have a look at it’. Leader (Melbourne) 25 Nov. 29/3: ‘The grandfather was one of the original ‘John Company,’ and that’s where the family money was made’. Leader (Melbourne) 25 Nov. 29/2: This swagger array of footgear caught the major’s eye one morning on passing Jones’s door, and he immediately recalled an ancient joke that was passed off on him years ago in his ‘griffinage’. Leader (Melbourne) 25 Nov. 29/3: ‘His old nabob of father got heaps of ‘loot’ in the early days. Bled old Rani Jopal of lakhs during the Mutiny,’ chirped the senior lieutenant. ‘All gup. (gossip),’ replied Captain Polhill. ‘Some bebecouf (idiot) invented that lie.’. Leader (Melbourne) 25 Nov. 29/2: ‘Split me, but I’d like, to stick ‘em through ‘is bloomin’ witals, the yellow soor (pig)!’. Leader (Melbourne) 20 Jan. 30/2: [orig. Indian text] ‘Capital fellow, Concannon,’ said Captain Fraser to Captain Polhill as they walked across the compound to their burra-hazri. Leader in DSUE (1984).