blackboys

Updated: May 1, 2025

I motioned to the blackboys to come and look; they did so, and I learnt that these fish, when the creek was low, were sometimes plentiful, and would take almost any floating bait, especially if it were alive.

Louis Becke - Five-Head Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific : 1901

He tapped loudly on the counter with a halfpenny. "What do you want, boy?" roughly asked the inspector. "A 'a'porth of blackboys," responded the child, in the confident tone of a regular customer.

Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees - The Hampstead Mystery

The day was marked too, by a grant feast of "stodge," doughboys, and jam, stodge being a delicacy extemporised for the occasion, consisting of "flour boiled with water to the consistency of paste, with some small pieces of raw meat thrown into it"!! The Brothers spent part of the afternoon in the mutual good offices of picking the pandanus thorns out of each others feet and legs, the blackboys following their example.

Frank Jardine - Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland