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Audiences assembled and paid for the spectacle of men knocking each other out. The winner took the big end of the purse. When Tom King faced the Woolloomoolloo Gouger, twenty years before, he knew that the Gouger's jaw was only four months healed after having been broken in a Newcastle bout.
The Arrecifos is lying just near by in Woolloomoolloo Bay. It's a pretty drive." "Oh yes. It will be lovely to be out in the cool, fresh air." The cabman took them to the Chair, from where they had a good view of the stately little barque as she lay upon the silent waters in a flood of moonlight. "Let us walk down to the edge of the water and hail old Watson just to give him a surprise."
The Surrey Hills are being fast covered with gentlemen's houses, for which a better situation could scarcely be chosen. Woolloomoolloo, or Darlinghurst, as it is now called, is the favourite suburb, and boasts of many handsome mansions, each with its garden. Among these are the respective residences of the Chief-Justice, the Bishop of Australia, and other members of the élite of this metropolis.
The best word in that list, and the most musical and gurgly, is Woolloomoolloo. It is a place near Sydney, and is a favorite pleasure-resort. It has eight O's in it. To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do. Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. MONDAY, December 23, 1895.
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