AS DRUNK AS DAVID’S SOW.

 
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AS DRUNK AS DAVID’S SOW 1 A common saying, which took its rise from the following cir- cumstance : David Lloyd, a Welshman, who kept an alehouse at Hereford, had a living sow with six legs, which was greatly resorted to by the curious [...]

Alcohol in Australia

Alcohol in Australia: the intertwining 
of social and personal histories
an interview with Milton Lewis

EXTRACT: 
Anglo-Celtic baggage
 It’s clear that heavy drinking was an established cultural norm transported to Australia along with other Anglo-Celtic cultural baggage. At the time of colonisation of Australia, it was the norm in Europe to drink heavily. It was the time of the gin [...]

DISMISSED

GOVERNMENT NOTICE
SECRETARY’S OFFICE, June 13, 1818
JOHN FOLEY, Constable of Hobart Town, is dismissed for Neglect of Duty and Drunkenness.
Samuel Hood, Secretary.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article654663
The Hobart Town Gazette… Saturday 13 June 1818,
OR NOT TO BE DISMISSED :
THE CASE OF THE SECOND MASTER OF THE FREE GRAMMER SCHOOL which includes in part;

Master Blaxland was introduced to the Meeting, a [...]

DRUNK’S POEM

Starkle, starkle, little twink,Who the hell you are I think.I’m not under what they callThe alcofluence of incohol.
I’m not drunk as thinkle peep,I’m just a little slort of sheep.Tee martoonis make a guyFool so feelish, don’t know why.
Rally don’t know who’s me yetThe drunker I stay the longer I getSo just one more to full [...]

DRINKING IN THE COLONY WITH HANNAH MOSS AND FRIENDS

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2185467
The Sydney Gazette and… Saturday 18 March 1826, page 3.
Hannah Moss, free, whose squalid and repulsive appearance might have set her above the imputation of being of that loose description of character, which she afterwards was proved to be, was sentenced as a notorious prostitute to the muse of correction, (the Factory; for [...]