anterseedents

Updated: July 17, 2026

'I expect he'll turn squatter some day and be made a magistrate. 'Like enough, says Jim. 'More than one we could pick began lower down than him, and sits on the Bench and gives coves like us a turn when we're brought up before 'em. Fancy old George sayin', "Is anything known, constable, of this prisoner's anterseedents?" as I heard old Higgler say one day at Bargo.

Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields