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To: HG who wrote (6782)	12/9/2000 1:44:56 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13018

one half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. - jane austen

To: HG who wrote (6782)	12/9/2000 1:51:57 PM
From: HG	Respond to of 13018

' A woman was a bat , a crack , a bunter , a case fro , a cattle , a mort , a burick , or a convenient . If she had a regular man, she was his natural or peculiar . If married, she was an autem mott ; if blonde, a bleached mott; if a very young prostitute, almost a child, a kinchin mott ; if beautiful, a rum blowen , a ewe , a flash piece of mutton . If she had gonorrhea, she was a queer mott. === "Now gentlemen to busiess. You all know the plot, is anyone against it? Nil. I have sixteen straws in my fist - the long straw will gain a prize, and the short will be his mate, and here is as good a piece of Hoop Iron as any on the island, and what is more it should shave a Bishop - fair play is a jewel, who draws for Lazarus ?" "my Codd Almighty, spare my life Gentlemen," cried the poor Jew. "Fair play is a jewel, come Mr Jew, you shall have the first prize". "So help me Codd, spare me" - the Jew fainted when all cried for the overseer to choose for the Jew. With some difficulty he was forced by kicks and threats to draw; he did so, the others following, when Fitzgerald was left with the longest straw, and the other with the shortest; either were to suffer a cruel death on the spot. ===== - Taken from the book 'The Fatal Shores' By Robert Hughes - Based on the colonisation of Australia starting 1787