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Epigraph:
Captain Faunce: What is to be done with offenders? - they must live somewhere; you cannot sweep them from the face of the earth.
Mr C. Campbell: You can hang them.
Captain Faunce: What! hang the partridge shooter, the goose stealer and the military offender?
Mr C. Campbell: Yes!!
Report of Queanbeyan Meeting, in Sydney Herald, of 19th February, 1847.Th is epigraph is followed by a quote from Lord Chatham.
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'On Charles Campbell's suggestion that poachers should be hung.' - Webby
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At foot of poem: Sydney, 22nd February, 1847.
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