Part 246 (1/2)

”I have been stuck up, trampled in the mud”

1869 J Townend, `Reminiscences of Australia,' p 140:

”Five or six bushrangers took up a position about a mile from town, and (to use a colonial phrase) `stuck up' every person that passed”

1869 Mrs W M Howell, `The Diggings and the Bush,'

p 93:

”The escort has been `stuck up,' and the robbers have taken notes to the value of L700, and two thousand ounces of gold”

1885 H Finch-Hatton, `Advance Australia,' p 253:

”We had a revolver apiece in case of being `stuck up' on the road”

1888 Rolf Boldrewood, `Robbery under Arht by `sticking up' a coach or a bank than in any other way in a yearAny one who has been stuck up hiline” [The operation is then explained fully]

1890 Lyth, `Golden South,' cviii p 68:

”Accounts of bushrangers `sticking up' stations, travellers, and banks were very frequent”

1893 `Sydney Morning Herald,' Aug 26, p 4 col 6:

”The ga up hotels used to be in the old days a popular one, and from the necessary openness of the premises the practice was easy to carry out”

(3) Huar In `Twenty- five Years of St Andrews' (vol ii p 87), A K H B

tells a story of a church dignitary, as always collecting host appeared at Glaan--that ”he was ; that he had a bad cold and could not well get out of bed; but that his collecting-book was on the dressing-table, and he would be `extreed' for a subscription” An Australian would have said he ”stuck up” the ghost for a subscription

1890 E W Hornung, `A Bride froet stuck up for coppers in the streets of the towns”

(4) Bring a kangaroo to bay

1884 Rolf Boldrewood, `Melbourne Memories,' c iii p 24:

”We knew that she had `stuck up' or brought to bay a large forester”

1888 D Macdonald, `Guhter I ever saw `stuck up' against a red gum-tree”

(5) Simply to stop

1863 S Butler, `First Year in Canterbury Settlement,' p 68:

”This [waterfall] `stuck us up,' as they say here concerning any difficulty”

1890 `The Argus,' June 7, p 4, col 2: