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remained open by one or two dead drunks to have a 

 camp in. Then there was Batty's pickles and sauces, 

 jellies and table delicacies^^ — eventually I got them a 

 gold medal. Following on this was a superb show of 

 washing blue ; of course the German firm had done 

 the thing well ; they must have spent two or three 

 hundred pounds on the show-case alone. Two or 

 three brandy firms, German wines, etc., were simple 

 and interesting, but the Bessbrook Granite Company 

 of Ireland had sent about twenty enormous grave- 

 yard monuments : there was one cross about ten 

 feet high. At all events the twenty odd lots were all 

 got into their places. 



There were not many interesting people, but Horace 

 Brinsmead was there with his pianos, and used to put 

 on the gloves round at Larry Foley's. He will be 

 remembered by many as a champion light-weight 

 amateur in his day in London. Jim Kellick kept a 

 tobacco shop in King Street that was a great resort 

 of backers. Trickett, the rowing champion, had the 

 big International Hotel in Pitt Street, and used to 

 serve the drinks on occasions, but never touched one 

 himself. We used to go in and see him and hear the 

 story of some of his matches. The Oxford Hotel, at 

 the top of King Street, was a great sporting rendezvous 

 too ; we used to talk horse there by the hour, and 

 back the " merry double," which expression was 

 coined b}^ Joe Thompson. Poor Ned Jones used to 

 spend the best part of his day in an hotel at the corner 

 of Pitt Street and King Street and was never frightened 

 of laying prices. I soon got in with the crowd, which 

 were met in various cities afterwards, especially at 

 race times. 



Before I had been in the country three months I 

 was married, at St James's Church, at the top of 



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