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' Ikey dug intothe pocket of his coat and produced a pound. 'Ow good are ya as atooler, boy? I just caught ya, that ain't a good sign. 'Ya was due back 'bout now, ya couldn't'have gone to too many places what wouldn't 'haveshopped ya, this were one,' he explained simply givingIkey a slow smile. Marybelle sucked the flesh of the entire chicken legfrom the bone with a soft plop and commenced to chew.

'Ah, you 'have done well to flush, my dear. For a time Dish lost all sense of what life was about. The search of Egyptian Mary's had revealed nothing,though it had been thorough in the extreme. The SydneyMonitor of iyth March 1830 reported Ikey's arrest thus:At about 2 pm two constables, in the d