Cooktown youngsters are getting on nicely, thank you. The latest fun out is for schoolboys to make a raid upon black gins and to have a high old time tumbling them into prickly pear bushes.
Shanghaiing them and a general stone-pelting are other, but less aristocratic, diversions the Cooktown kid indulges in. Observes the Cooktown Independent :—" These boys will grow up to be creditable Government agents in labor vessels."
ROUNDABOUT. (1885, January 10). Queensland Figaro (Brisbane, Qld. : 1883 - 1885), p. 11. Retrieved June 17, 2020, from TROVE
