Sly-grog

‘The only taproom in Hobart without a Gould on the wall,’ remarked the sly-grog shop owner Mr Capois Death […], ‘is the one with Gould in the gutter.’

For want of anything else to do, diggers frequented the sly-grog shops, got drunk, and were then prone to use bad language and become either victims or perpetrators of crime and violence.