Captain Snooker
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express, Thursday 25 December 1884
“Well,” said the victim, “I’ve been down to Gaunt’s, and the barometer stands at 265, and the thermometer registers 206 in the shade. Then, again, the wind is ablowing from every pint of the blooming compass. If it turns to a southerly buster, as Captain Snooker said just now, we are all in for pure devastation.”