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Miners are fond of giving nicknames to each other, and so much that often their real names are forgotten altogether. A solicitor's clork was sent to serve a legal process on a man whose name and addre33 were given him fully. He spent many hours in search, and was about to give it up, whan he saw a young woman, who said she would help him in his search, and "began thus to hail her friends: "Oi say, Bullyed, does theo know a man named Adam. Green? " Bullhead shook his head. " 'Loy-a- bed, does thas? " Lie-a-bed was powerless. " Stumpy," " Cowskin, ' " Spindleshanks," "Cockeye," and "Pigtail," were severally invoked, but in vain, and the querist foil into a brown study. At length, however, her eyes suddenly brightened, and, slumping one of her companions on the shoulder, she exclaimed : '-' Dust my wig ! whoy he moans my feyther ! " And then, turning to the lawyer's clerk, she added : "You should ha' axed for Auld Blackbird ; "
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Otago Witness, Issue 2387, 30 November 1899, Page 67
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163Difficult to Find. Otago Witness, Issue 2387, 30 November 1899, Page 67
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