long-beer

Updated: May 6, 2025

So we took our beer out in the fernery and got a cool place at a little table in a quiet corner amongst the fern boxes. "Well, One-eyed Bogan was a hard case, Mitchell," I said. "Wasn't he?" "Yes," said Mitchell, putting down his "long-beer" glass, "he was." "Rather a bad egg?" "Yes, a regular bad egg," said Mitchell, decidedly. "I heard he got caught cheating at cards," I said.

Henry Lawson - Children of the Bush