“Now said he I promised you some proper boots.
     The boy could think of no finer thing but knowing how much boots cost he said he’d rather spend the money on a present for his mother and for this received a powerful clip across the back of the head and then were hauled by the ear across the road to what they call a GENERAL STORE.
     Soon the boy were sitting in a purple velvet chair with a cove in a suit and fancy collar attending him yes Sir no Sir Mr. Power Sir.
     This lad will be wanting a pair of elastic sided boots with Cuban heels.”
    
—Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang, 2000.