“Quid”: £1.
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The Australian wild dog.
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Laughing jackasses.
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“Tail”—a drover or stockman who is set to keep a mob of cattle from straying “tails” them—i.e., follows at their tails.
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“Salting” a gold mine is a common practice of dishonest miners not entirely unknown even to magnates of the Stock Exchange—as the records of the London Law Courts have shown for many years past.
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“Do not bathe in that waterhole. Many blue water-snakes live in it. If one bit you, even a little, you would die quickly. Many wild blacks have been killed by the baigan”
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“I feel faint”
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Bung–dead.
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“Plenty of women will want to get you now for a husband.”