pick-a-ninny

Updated: May 25, 2025

What is become of those who once lived in these parts? They are all dead, or gone to other parts of the island. The last black near Sydney, used to talk of the old times, and say, "When I was a pick-a-ninny, plenty of black fellow then. Only one left now, mitter." It is much better to live here than in Sydney, because convicts have never been sent here.

Favell Lee Mortimer - Far Off