Green’s Heroes of Slang: 7. The Larrikin

Jonathon Green salutes that great Australian stereotype and master of slang, the 'larrikin'... Let us first describe the captain, bottle-shouldered, pale and thin, For he was the beau-ideal of a Sydney larrikin; E'en his hat was most suggestive of the city where we live, With a gallows-tilt that no one, save a larrikin, can ... Read More...