orses."

1891. Canon Goodman, `Church in Victoria during Episcopate of
Bishop Perry,' p. 98:

"Some careless person had neglected to replace the slip-rails
of the paddock into which his horses had been turned the
previous evening."

1896. H. Lawson, `When the World was Wide,' p. 104:

"Then loudly she screamed: it was only to drown
The treacherous clatter of slip-rails let down."

<hw>Sloth, Native</hw>, i.q. <i>Native Bear</i>.
See <i>Bear</i>, and <i>Koala</i>.

<hw>Slusher</hw>, or <hw>Slushy</hw>, <i>n</i>. cook's
assistant at shearing-time on a station.

1890. `The Argus,' Sept.20, p.13, col. 6:

"`Sundays are the most trying days of all,' say the
<i>cuisiniers</i>, `for then they have nothing to do
but to growl.' This man's assistant is called `the slusher.'

1896. A. B. Paterson, `Man from Snowy River,' p. 162:

"The tarboy, the cook, and the slushy,
the sweeper that swept the board,
The picker-up, and the penner, with the rest of the
shearing horde."

1896. `The Field,' Jan. 18, p. 83, col. 1:

"He employs as many `slushies' as he thinks necessary, paying
them generally L1 per week."

<hw>Slush-lamp</hw>, <i>n</i>. a lamp made by filling an old
tin with fat and putting a rag in for wick. The word, though
not exclusively Australian, is more common in the Australian
bush than elsewhere. Compare English <i>slush-horn</i>, horn
for holding grease; <i>slush-pot</i>, pot for holding grease,
etc.

1883. J. Keighley, `Who are You?' p. 45:

"The slush-lamp shone with a smoky light."

1890. `The Argus,' Sept.20, p.13, col. 6:

"Occasionally the men will give Christy Minstrel concerts, when
they illuminate the wool-shed with slush-lamps, and invite all
on the station."

<hw>Smelt</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given, in Melbourne, to the fish
<i>Clupea vittata</i>, Castln., family <i>Clupeidae</i>, or
<i>Herrings</i> (q.v.); in New Zealand and Tasmania, to
<i>Retropinna richardsonii</i>, Gill, family <i>Salmonidae</i>.
Its young are called <i>Whitebait</i> (q.v.). The <i>Derwent
Smelt</i> is a Tasmanian fish, H<i>aplochiton sealii</i>,
family <i>Haplochitonidae</i>, fishes with an adipose fin which
represent the salmonoids in the Southern Hemisphere;
<i>Prototroctes</i> is the only other genus of the family known
(see Grayling). <i>Haplochiton</i> is also found in the cold
latitudes of South America.

<hw>Sminthopsis</hw>, <i>n</i>. the scientific name for the
genus of <i>Narrow-foo