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Show "Bosker Time" Is Cheerful. The term a "bosker time," which the Australians use to describe a cheerful leave, comes home to its birthplace, little altered. "Bosky," with a similar manlng, was an English colloquialism in the eighteenth century. And "bosky" "bos-ky" is still cuiTent slang with us, but implying too generous use of the wine cup. There is one phrase In the book of slang which Is decidedly, pleasing, "Australian grip." It stands for that best of greetings, the honest, hearty hand shake. London Chronicle. |