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as Captain Standing does about mustering

mosquitoes and boiling them down for

their fat on the back Blocks of the Lachlan

for he has a head like a turnip a stiffneck

as big as his shoulders narrow hipped

and pointed towards the feet like a vine

stake and if there is any one to be called

a murderer regarding Kennedy Scanlan and

Lonigan it is that misplaced poodle he gets

as much pay as a doz good troopers if there

is any good in them and what does he

do for it he cannot look behind him without

turning his whole frame it take three or

four police to keep sentry while he sleep

in Wangaratta for fear of body snatchers

do they think he is a superior animal

to the men that has to guard them him

if so why not send the men that gets

big pay and reckoned superior to the common

police after me and you shall soon save

the country of high salaries to men

that is fit for nothing else but getting

better men than himself shot and sending

orphan children to the industrial school

to make Prostitutes for the Detectives and other evil

disposed persons send the high paid men that receive

big salaries for years in a gang by themselves after

me as it will make no difference to them but it will

give the public a chance of shewing whether they are

worth more pay than a common trooper or not

and I think the public will soon find out they

are only in the road of good men that is if there


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